I've just been reading "Love and Math" by Edward Frenkel, which I recommend for his view of modern mathematics. His take on Soviet science was that math and ph

I've just been reading "Love and Math" by Edward Frenkel, which I recommend for his view of modern mathematics. His take on Soviet science was that math and physics (and maybe other hard sciences) were mostly left outside of Communist party control, while things like literature, humanities, psychology, ... things where party officials might not hesitate to express an ill-formed opinion, were dormant or party-controlled nonsense during the Soviet era. Frenkel is a Soviet-born mathematician who left the country just before Glasnost, who was discriminated against for having a Jewish surname.