Download or read book Geographical Perspectives in the Soviet Union written by George J. Demko and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geographical Perspectives in the Soviet Union written by George J. Demko and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geographical Perspectives in the Soviet Union written by Roland J. Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art And Science Of Geography written by Vladimir V. Annenkov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to the changes taking place in the post-Cold War era, the editors of this volume have brought together more than forty distinguished Soviet and U.S. geographers to redefine geography as a discipline and to examine its relationship to other sciences and to the arts. Challenging inevitable barriers of language and of differing social, cultural, and scientific backgrounds, each contributor provides personal insight and perspective, shedding unique light onto this often poorly understood discipline. The book covers a broad sweep of issues, ranging from the methods of geography to examples of practical work done by geographers in Russia and the former republics and the United States. The contributors explore and define advances in quantitative technique, increasingly sophisticated methodology, and the essential relationship between these changes and theory building. They also examine the application of geography in Soviet and U.S. schools as well as the demands that shifting world events are placing on the discipline. The discussions not only reveal the individual perspectives of each geographer but also provide a unique forum for the exploration of similarities and differences within the world's two largest geographic communities. The volume concludes with an afterword by Torsten Hager strand.
Download or read book The Soviet Far East written by Allan Rodgers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet Far East (1990) examines the largest economic region in the Soviet Union, the Far East. The region is explored in all its geographical and economic complexity. Chapters on the state of its development under Gorbachev (and his programme of investment) are supplemented by examinations of the history of its settlement, analysis of its unique environment and the threats which economic growth might pose for it, and of the region’s vital strategic significance to the Soviet Union.
Download or read book Geographic Perspectives on Soviet Central Asia written by Robert Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a unique survey, based on new census data, Geographic Perspectives on Soviet Central Asia highlights the region's geographic, economic and ecological problems since 1945. Painting a grim picture, this book investigates how the combination of rapid population growth and declining per capita investment is causing economic conditions to slide in rural areas and encouraging an ecological catastrophe. The authors discuss the effects of low rural out-migration, and show that at current growth rates the rural working-age population will double with each generation. Unprecedented in a developed country, this is causing the region to become more rather than less rural. Soviet Central Asia is an area of low productivity, and the book considers the lack of support from Soviet central government to the region. Wishing to maximise their return to capital and labour, the government is concentrating its investment in the European West and directing insufficient funds for a growing workforce in Central Asia. Soviet Central Asia also faces grave ecological problems; the declining level of the Aral Sea, extensive soil salinization and water pollution, all largely due to past attempts at irrigation. The authors consider the effect of these disasters on the area, and look to future possibilities in this very important region of the world.
Download or read book Geographical Perspectives in the Soviet Union written by Roland J. Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Russia and the Post Soviet Scene written by James H. Bater and published by Halsted Press. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This successor to Bater's highly-acclaimed The Soviet Scene presents a survey of the contemporary human geography of the former Soviet Union. A central theme in the book's organization and content is historical continuity and change: Bater argues that an appreciation of the former Soviet Union's past is imperative to an understanding of the present.
Download or read book The Soviet Scene written by James H. Bater and published by Hodder Arnold. This book was released on 1989-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a concise introduction to the complexities of the Soviet system, focusing on issues of general concern. It looks at the processes of decision-making, the continuities and changes between Imperial and Soviet Russia, and the divergences between ideals and reality in the Soviet Union.
Download or read book Human Geography in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union written by Ludwik Mazurkiewicz and published by *Belhaven Press. This book was released on 1992-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines and explains human geography in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union focusing on ideas, concepts and approaches which have emerged during the last century. The author provides a much needed perspective on the current changes as well as possible future developments in light of the profound transformations that have occurred in the social and economic life of these regions.
Download or read book The Development of Russian Environmental Thought written by Jonathan Oldfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the very rich thinking about environmental issues which has grown up in Russia since the nineteenth century, a body of knowledge and thought which is not well known to Western scholars and environmentalists. It shows how in the late nineteenth century there emerged in Russia distinct and strongly articulated representations of the earth’s physical systems within many branches of the natural sciences, representations which typically emphasised the completely integrated nature of natural systems. It stresses the importance in these developments of V V Dokuchaev who significantly advanced the field of soil science. It goes on to discuss how this distinctly Russian approach to the environment developed further through the work of geographers and other environmental scientists down to the late Soviet period.
Download or read book Human Geography in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union written by Ludwik Mazurkiewicz and published by Jacaranda. This book was released on 1992 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to present human geography as pursued in Eastern Europe and the USSR since 1945, and to bridge the gap still existing in the methodological literature of the region. Coupled with the longlasting interest scholars have had in the development of the discipline in the Eastern bloc are the current changes which will have a dramatic effect on how human geography is approached. The author provides a perspective on these changes.
Download or read book Empire De Centered written by Maxim Waldstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991 the Soviet empire collapsed, at a stroke throwing the certainties of the Cold War world into flux. Yet despite the dramatic end of this 'last empire', the idea of empire is still alive and well, its language and concepts feeding into public debate and academic research. Bringing together a multidisciplinary and international group of authors to study Soviet society and culture through the categories empire and space, this collection demonstrates the enduring legacy of empire with regard to Russia, whose history has been marked by a particularly close and ambiguous relationship between nation and empire building, and between national and imperial identities. Parallel with this discussion of empire, the volume also highlights the centrality of geographical space and spatial imaginings in Russian and Soviet intellectual traditions and social practices; underlining how Russia's vast geographical dimensions have profoundly informed Russia's state and nation building, both in practice and concept. Combining concepts of space and empire, the collection offers a reconsideration of Soviet imperial legacy by studying its cultural and societal underpinnings from previously unexplored perspectives. In so doing it provides a reconceptualization of the theoretical and methodological foundations of contemporary imperial and spatial studies, through the example of the experience provided by Soviet society and culture.
Download or read book A Geography of the Soviet Union written by John C. Dewdney and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1979 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geographical Perspectives of Landlocked Countries written by Todd Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soviet Union written by Leften Stavros Stavrianos and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Political Geography written by John A. Agnew and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dating from its inception in the late nineteenth century, political geography as a field has been heavily influenced by global events of the time. Thus, rather than trying to impose a single "fashionable" theory, leading geographers John Agnew and Luca Muscar consider the underlying role of changing geopolitical context as their framework for understanding the evolution of the discipline. The authors trace the development of key thinkers and theories during three distinct periods--1875-1945, the Cold War, and the post-Cold War--emphasizing the ongoing struggle between theoretical "monism" and "pluralism," or one path to knowledge versus many. The world has undergone dramatic shifts since the book's first publication in 2002, and this thoroughly revised and updated second edition focuses especially on reinterpretations of the post-Cold War period. Agnew and Muscar explore the renewed questioning of international borders, the emergence of the Middle East and displacement of Europe as the center of global geopolitics, the rise of China and other new powers, the reappearance of environmental issues, and the development of critical geopolitics. With its deeply knowledgeable and balanced history and overview of the field, this concise work will be a valuable and flexible text for all courses in political geography.
