Postwar Studies on the Human Geography of Eastern Europe

Turnock, David

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“…The ma-jority of models and theories adopted by English-language geographers are concerned with explaining the spatial aspects of the advanced capitalism and are, for the most part, not suitable for the study of ECE. Turnock (1984), who surveyed the relevant English-language geographical literature, arrived at a similar conclusion almost a decade earlier. This lack of interest is even more disappointing considering the potential spatial significance of the events and processes taking place in ECE to the EC and western Europe as a whole.…”

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confidence: 66%

A Debt to the West: Recent Developments in the International Financial Situation of East-Central Europe

Michalak¹,

Gibb²

1992

The Professional Geographer

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East‐Central Europe is undergoing a rapid political and economic transformation. The unprecedented depth and speed of the economic reforms have produced serious questions about the stability of the region, and its future relations with western Europe and the world economy. This paper surveys and evaluates the size and character of existing debt stocks owed to the West by Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. The future political and economic stability of East‐Central Europe and the European Community depends, to a large extent, on the ability of the Western financial system to respond to the long‐term needs of the region.

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A Debt to the West: Recent Developments in the International Financial Situation of East-Central Europe

Michalak¹,

Gibb²

1992

The Professional Geographer

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“…It shows also that the disparities in Warsaw as a 'socialist' city are similar to those of West European counterparts (and not "fundamentally different" as, say, Turnock, 1984, p. 327 or Wqcawowicz, 1981. But these similarities only hold true for description.…”

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Social and Spatial Disparities in Warsaw in 1978: An Application of Correspondence Analysis to a 'Socialist' City

Dangschat

Blasius

1987

Urban Studies

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This paper has two main goals, one is to move towards an explanation of socio-spatial disparities in a 'socialist' city as measured by segregation values for 1978 in Warsaw. The second is to introduce a fruitful hitherto unused technique in urban research, namely correspondence analysis, to describe the relative value of discriminating variables. Socio-spatial disparities in Warsaw are indicated by a typology of planning districts, defined particularly by characteristics of the planning districts' housing stock, but also by socio-demographic characteristics. The unequal spatial distribution of dwellings categorised by construction agencies and by age of building is identified as the main cause of the socio-spatial disparities measured, since the spatial distribution of the residential population by education and age is related to these specific characteristics of the housing stock. The final discussion suggests that the degree of socio-spatial disparity is a consequence of both the actions of the planning authorities, and also unequal access to dwellings.

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“…Caesar 1955 1962; Howe 1968). Nevertheless, the study of the Eastern bloc by British geographers was given an important boost by these initiatives, and by the 1980s a significant body of geographical work was being produced covering a range of countries and systematic areas, as shown by review essays in Progress in Human Geography covering work on the Soviet Union (Pallot 1983) and Eastern Europe (Turnock 1984). The Second World War proved important for a range of sub‐disciplinary pursuits within Anglo–US geography.…”

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

Oldfield¹,

Matless²,

Swain³

2011

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper explores the origins of British geographical studies of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, in particular the ways in which this sub‐discipline was shaped by state‐led initiatives after the Second World War, emerging as a small yet distinct area of geographical practice within UK universities. The historical focus of the paper incorporates the publication of the government‐initiated Scarbrough Commission Report in 1947 and the formalisation of cultural relations between the UK and the Soviet Union during the 1960s, in addition to such key initiatives as the Joint Services School for Linguists, the early work of the British Council’s Soviet Relations Committee and the 1961 Hayter Report. The paper draws from a range of sources including archival materials and oral history testimonies. It is argued that in addition to a steady stream of more or less standard regional textbooks, the published outputs associated with the sub‐discipline post‐1945 also comprised a range of systematically focused, as well as more strategically oriented, works. Such studies may put into question any straightforward distinction between traditional regional geography and emergent spatial science.

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Postwar Studies on the Human Geography of Eastern Europe

Cited by 9 publications

References 99 publications

A Debt to the West: Recent Developments in the International Financial Situation of East-Central Europe

A Debt to the West: Recent Developments in the International Financial Situation of East-Central Europe

Social and Spatial Disparities in Warsaw in 1978: An Application of Correspondence Analysis to a 'Socialist' City

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

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