The making of a sub-discipline: State initiatives and the production of British geographical studies of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1945-71

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 574-589

  Oldfield, Jonathan ^a   Matless, David ^b   Swain, Adam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cold War; Eastern bloc; Eastern Europe; Geography; History of geography; Oral history; Soviet Union

Indexed keywords

COLD WAR; CULTURAL HISTORY; CULTURAL RELATIONS; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHY; REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY; STATE BUILDING;

EASTERN EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; USSR;

EID: 80052568668     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00443.x     Document Type: Article

References (95)

1. Agnew J, Livingstone D N and Rogers A 1996 Part IV: Region, place and locality: introduction in Agnew J, Livingstone D N and Rogers A eds Human geography: an essential anthology Blackwell, Oxford 366-77
2. Armstrong T E 1955 The Soviet Northern Sea route The Geographical Journal 121 136-46
3. Balchin W G V 1987 United Kingdom geographers in the Second World War The Geographical Journal 153 159-80
4. Barnes T J 2006 Geographical intelligence: American geographers and research and analysis in the Office of Strategic Services 1941-1945 Journal of Historical Geography 32 149-68
5. Barnes T 2008 Stuck in a mess (again): a response to Johnston, Fairbrother, Hayes, Hoare and Jones Geoforum 39 1807-10
6. Barnes T J and Farish M 2006 Between regions: science, militarism, and American geography from World War to Cold War Annals of the Association of American Geographers 96 807-26
7. Beaver S H 1962 The Le Play Society and field work Geography 47 225-40
8. Bradshaw M J 2009 On the contribution of David J. M. Hooson to the geographical study of the Soviet Union Geopolitics 14 176-81
9. Bradshaw M J and Lynn N J 1994 After the Soviet Union: the Post-Soviet states in the world system Professional Geographer 46 439-49
10. Brown T and Moon G 2004 From Siam to New York: Jacques May and the 'foundation' of medical geography Journal of Historical Geography 30 747-63
11. Caesar A A L 1955 On the economic organization of Eastern Europe The Geographical Journal 121 451-65
12. Caesar A A L 1962 Yugoslavia: geography and post-war planning Transactions and Papers (Institute of British Geographers) 30 33-43
13. Chorley R J and Haggett P eds 1967 Models in geography (The Second Madingley Lectures) Methuen & Co Ltd, London
14. Churchward L G 1987 Soviet socialism: social and political essays Routledge and Kegan Paul, London
15. Clout H 2003 Geography at University College London: a brief history UCL, London
16. Clout H and Gosme C 2003 The Naval Intelligence handbooks: a monument in geographical writing Progress in Human Geography 27 153-73
17. Cole J P 1955 Postwar work on the waterways of European Russia The Geographical Journal 121 503-10
18. Cole J P 1956 A new industrial area in Asiatic USSR The Geographical Journal 122 354-9
19. Cole J P 1959 Geography of world affairs Penguin, Harmondsworth
20. Cole J P 1967 Geography of the USSR Penguin, Harmondsworth
21. Cole J P and German F C 1961 A geography of the USSR: the background to a planned economy Butterworths, London
22. Cole J P and King C A M 1968 Quantitative geography John Wiley, London
23. Crone G R 1964 British geography in the twentieth century The Geographical Journal 130 197-220
24. Dewdney J C 1965 A geography of the Soviet Union Pergamon Press, Oxford
25. Donaldson F 1984 The British Council: the first fifty years Jonathan Cape, London
26. Driver F 2001 Geography militant: cultures of exploration and empire Blackwell, Oxford
27. East W G 1956a Land frontiers and frontier problems of the Soviet Union in East W G and Moodie A E eds The changing world: studies in political geography George G Harrap & Co. Ltd, London 410-31
28. East W G 1956b The Soviet Union and the 'Heartland' in East W G and Moodie A E eds The changing world: studies in political geography George G Harrap & Co. Ltd, London 432-50
29. East W G 1963 The Soviet Union (Van Nostrand Searchlight Book) D. Van Nostrand Company, Princeton NJ
30. Elliott G and Shukman H 2002 Secret classrooms: an untold story of the Cold War St Ermin's Press, London
31. Farish M 2005 Archiving areas: the ethnogeographic board and the Second World War Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95 663-79
32. Flynn M and Oldfield J 2006 Trans-national approaches to locally situated concerns: exploring the meanings of post-socialist space Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 22 3-23
33. Gould-Davies N 2003 The logic of Soviet cultural diplomacy Diplomatic History 27 193-214
34. Gregory J S 1946 Land of the Soviets Penguin, Harmondsworth
35. Gregory J S and Shave D W 1944 The USSR: a geographical survey Harrap, London
36. Hamilton F E I 1967 Models of industrial location in Chorley R J and Haggett P eds 1967 Models in geography (The Second Madingley Lectures) Methuen & Co. Ltd, London 361-424
37. Hamilton F E I 1968 Yugoslavia: patterns of economic activity Frederick A Praeger, New York
38. Harris C D 1956 Soviet agricultural resources reappraised Journal of Farm Economics 38 258-73
39. Harvey D 2000 Reinventing geography (interview) New Left Review 4 75-97
40. Hayter Report 1961 Report of the Sub-Committee on Oriental, Slavonic, East European and African Studies Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London
41. Hayter W 1966 The Kremlin and the Embassy Hodder and Stoughton, London
42. Hayter W 1975 The Hayter Report and after Oxford Review of Education 1 169-72
43. Heffernan M 1996 Geography, cartography and military intelligence: the Royal Geographical Society and the First World War Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS 21 504-33
44. Hooson D J M 1959 Some recent developments in the content and theory of Soviet geography Annals of the Association of American Geographers 49 73-82
45. Hooson D J M 1960 The Middle Volga. An emerging focal region in the Soviet Union The Geographical Journal 126 180-90
46. Hooson D J M 1962 A new Soviet heartland?, The Geographical Journal 128 19-29
47. Horrabin J F and Gregory J S 1945 An atlas of the USSR Penguin, West Drayton
48. Hörschelmann K and Stenning A 2008 Ethnographies of postsocialist change Progress in Human Geography 32 339-61
49. House of Commons 1959 Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on relations in the scientific, technological, educational and cultural fields 1960-61 Command Paper 917, XXXVI.709
50. Howe G M 1968 The Soviet Union Macdonald & Evans, London
51. Ireland G 1995 Obituaries: Sir William Hayter The Independent 30 March
52. Johnston R 2004a Institutions and disciplinary fortunes: two moments in the history of UK geography in the 1960s - I: geography in the 'plateglass universities' Progress in Human Geography 28 57-77
53. Johnston R 2004b Institutions and disciplinary fortunes: two moments in the history of UK geography in the 1960s - II: human geography and the Social Science Research Council Progress in Human Geography 28 187-203
54. Johnston R J and Sidaway J D 2004 Geography and geographers: Anglo-American human geography since 1945, 6th edn Arnold, London
55. Johnston R, Fairbrother M, Hayes D, Hoare T and Jones K 2008 The Cold War and geography's quantitative revolution: some messy reflections on Barnes' geographical underworld Geoforum 39 1802-6
56. Lavrov S B, Preobrazhenskiy V S and Sdasyuk G V 1980 Radical geography: its roots, history and positions Soviet Geography: Review and Translation 31 308-21
57. Livingstone D N 1992 The geographical tradition: episodes in the history of a contested enterprise Blackwell, Oxford
58. Lydolph P E and Shabad T 1960 The oil and gas industries in the USSR Annals of the Association of American Geographers 50 461-86
59. Maddrell A 2008 The 'map girls'. British women geographers' war work, shifting gender boundaries and reflections on the history of geography Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS 33 127-48
60. Matless D 1992 Regional surveys and local knowledges: the geographical imagination in Britain, 1918-39 Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS 17 464-80
61. Matless D, Oldfield J and Swain A 2007 Encountering soviet geography: oral histories of British geographical studies of the USSR and Eastern Europe 1945-1991 Social & Cultural Geography 8 353-72
62. Matless D, Oldfield J and Swain A 2008 Geographically touring the eastern bloc: British geography, travel cultures and the Cold War Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS 33 354-75
63. Matley I M 1966 The Marxist approach to the geographical environment Annals of the Association of American Geographers 56 97-111
64. Mayhew C 1998 A war of words: a Cold War witness I.B. Tauris, London
65. Mead W R 1951 The cold farm in Finland: resettlement of Finland's displaced farmers The Geographical Review XLI 529-43
66. Mead W R 1953 Farming in Finland Athlone Press, London
67. Mead W R 1994 A geographical experience of Finland Fennia 172 183-90
68. Mead W R and Smeds H 1967 Winter in Finland Hugh Evelyn, London
69. Medvedev R 1980 The Afghan crisis (interview) New Left Review 121 91-6
70. Mellor R E H 1964 Geography of the USSR Macmillan, London
71. NID 1944 Jugoslavia, volume 1 (Geographical Handbook Series) Naval Intelligence Division, London
72. Pallot J 1983 Recent approaches in the geography of the Soviet Union Progress in Human Geography 7 519-42
73. Peet R ed 1978 Radical Geography: alternative viewpoints on contemporary social issues Methuen & Co Ltd, London
74. Peet R and Slater D 1980 Reply to the Soviet review of Radical Geography Soviet Geography: Review and Translation 31 541-5
75. Peet R, Fuchs R J and Demko G J 1980 Commentary: On 'Geographic inequality under socialism' Annals of the Association of American Geographers 70 280-7
76. Pletsch C E 1981 The three worlds, or the division of social scientific labor, circa 1950-1975 Comparative Studies in Society and History 23 565-90
77. Pounds N J G 1964 Poland between east and west (Van Nostrand Searchlight Book) D. Van Nostrand Company, Princeton NJ
78. Power M and Sidaway J D 2004 The degeneration of tropical geography Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94 585-601
79. Powers M K 1955 Area studies The Journal of Higher Education 26 82-113
80. Prior K 2004 Lumley, Lawrence Roger, eleventh earl of Scarbrough (1896-1969) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press, Oxford () Accessed 3 March 2010
81. Pudup M B 1988 Arguments within regional geography Progress in Human Geography 12 369-90
82. Richmond Y 2003 Cultural exchange and the Cold War Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park PA
83. Roberts I W 1991 History of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies 1915-1990 SSEES occasional papers 14 School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, London
84. Scarbrough Commission Report 1947 Report of the Interdepartmental Commission of Enquiry on Oriental, Slavonic, East European and African Studies His Majesty's Stationery Office, London
85. Scargill I 1999 The Oxford School of Geography, 1899-1999 School of Geography research papers 55 University of Oxford, Oxford
86. Smith A 2002 Trans-locals, critical area studies and geography's Others, or why 'development' should not be geography's organizing framework: a response to Potter Area 34 210-3
87. Steel R W 1984 The Institute of British Geographers: the first fifty years Institute of British Geographers, London
88. Stenning A and Hörschelmann K 2008 Ethnographies of postsocialist change Progress in Human Geography 32 339-61
89. Turnock D 1984 Postwar studies on the human geography of Eastern Europe Progress in Human Geography 8 315-46
90. Twight C 1996 Federal control over education: crisis, deception, and institutional change Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization 31 299-333
91. Ure J 2004 Hayter, Sir William Goodenough (1906-1995) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press, Oxford Accessed 3 March 2010
92. Van Oudenaren J 1991 Détente in Europe: the Soviet Union and the West since 1953 Duke University Press, Durham NC
93. Wallerstein I 1997 The unintended consequences of Cold War area studies in Chomsky N, Nader L, Wallerstein I, Lewontin R C, Katznelson I and Zinn H eds The Cold War and the university: towards an intellectual history of the postwar years The New Press, New York 195-231
94. White A J S 1965 The British Council: the first 25years, 1934-1959 (A personal account written for the information of Council staff) British Council, London
95. White E 2003 Centre for Russian and East European Studies: 40years of pioneering teaching and research University of Birmingham, Birmingham