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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Both. The books by foreign authors were translations. I have no idea if they were paid anything at all or not.
You could not order directly from foreign countries yourself, just as you could not travel to foreign countries whenever you wanted (except within the borders of the USSR). You could read only what was locally available.
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I read from Wikipedia that the USSR joined the Universal Copyright Convention, which became effective on May 27, 1973, and that meant you couldn't translate foreign books without the author's permission. As to compensation to the author, I still have no idea.