Personal Communications

Abstract

In this chapter, we provide a general discussion of communications between scientists in East and West from the 1920s, up to around the 1980s, with the focus being upon personal contacts between scientists: correspondence and face-to-face meetings. We will see that the initially quite easy contacts of the 1920s became rather more difficult under Stalin, before picking up again slightly during the Second World War, and then more dramatically following Stalin’s death.