STALINISM AND GEOGRAPHY

Impacts of Stalinist repression on geographic thought and practice in the USSR are described. These include the persecution and untimely deaths of a number of geographers, the abandonment of certain lines of research, the shift in emphasis from political and economic to physical geography, and the simplification, elimination, or falsification of theoretical paradigms. Translated by Elliott B. Urdang, Providence, RI 02906 from: Territorial'naya organizatsiya obshchestva i problemy mezhnatsional'nykh otnosheniy: Materialy k IX s'yezdu Geograficheskogo Obshchestva SSSR. Leningrad: Geograficheskoye Obshchestvo SSSR, 1990, pp. 60-61.