Tolman, the chief cartographer for Replogle Globes Inc., the largest manufacturer, anywhere, ... A U.S. government map of the Soviet Union will have a note on it, ...

The longtime chief cartographer for Replogle Globes — the ... Japanese wanted their atlases and globes to show that the northerly Kuril Islands belonged to them and not the nearby Soviet Union.

Within a few months, Replogle opened a small factory on South Franklin Street and hired one worker. Business started to take off when Marshall Field & Co. ordered 100,000 globes in 1933 to be sold ...

As chief cartographer for Replogle Globes, Mr. Tolman’s job involved tracking political unrest, ... “If there was a change we had to work on the Soviet Union, anything, ...

When the Soviet Union was created, beginning in 1917, its rulers wanted all profits, all returns to capital, to accrue to the state. This would not have been possible with decentralized markets ...

Businesses from nearby republics looking to trade in the glasnost-era Soviet Union came to him with $15,000 bribes and intimidating bodyguards. He had his own bodyguard and driver at one point ...

Chronicling nearly four decades of activity, this feature examines the rise and fall of the KGB as the Soviet Union’s core intelligence force. The story begins with its brutal predecessors and ...

A man wearing a Soviet military hat poses for a picture outside a regional government building in Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine April 21, 2014. MARKO DJURICA/Reuters ...

At the height of the Cold War, globes were the best way to understand the over-the-pole threat posed by the Soviet Union, and Replogle’s company alone was making 2,000 globes a day. These were ...

LeRoy M. Tolman had the world in his hands. As chief cartographer for Replogle Globes, Mr. Tolman’s job involved tracking political unrest, the winds of democracy and the fall of colonialism ...