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Comment author: Viliam 28 May 2016 04:32:59PM 1 point [-]

Masha Gessen: Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century

This is a story about one person, but there is a lot of background information on doing math in Soviet Union.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 01 June 2016 01:42:11AM 0 points [-]

Thanks! Since that's in English, I will take at least a look at it.

Gessen does not strike me as a reliable source, so for now I am completely discounting everything you said about it, in favor of what I have heard directly from Russian mathematicians, which is a lot less extreme.