Soviet Union in Maps: Its Origin and Development - Denoyer-Geppert 1965

Harold Fullard (editor); George Philip & Son; Denoyer-Geppert Company

Published by Denoyer-Geppert Company, 1965

About this Item

Denoyer-Geppert Company, Published 1965. Wraps, 32 pp; oblong, 20 x 26 cm; illustrated with thirty-two color maps. In Good condition. Pictorial paper wraps; bumping and creasing to edges and corners, mild to moderate shelf wear and soiling overall, some color loss along edges and spine. Binding tight, staple bound; pages mildly toned, otherwise unmarked. A compact thematic atlas of the USSR issued for the American school market by Denoyer-Geppert (from the London house of George Philip and Son), presenting the Soviet Union as it stood in the mid-1960s, near the height of the Cold War. The color maps trace Russian territorial growth from the 13th-century Moscow principality through the Tsarist expansions, the partitions of Poland, and the Soviet gains in the west after 1945, then map the contemporary state in detail: physical geography, climate, the political division into union republics, agriculture, industry, fuel and power, and the distribution of languages and ethnic groups. The Ukrainian SSR and the Ukraine-and-Caucasus industrial region are mapped both on their own and within the all-Union economic tables, with population and economic-development figures tabulated republic by republic. The cartography is dense and finely engraved, packing topography, drainage, railways, shipping routes, oil fields and pipelines, and historical sites onto each spread. A vivid Cold War teaching document and a detailed snapshot of Soviet geography and economy in 1965.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Soviet Union in Maps: Its Origin and Development - Denoyer-Geppert 1965
• Publisher: Denoyer-Geppert Company
• Publication Date: 1965
• Language: English
• Binding: Wrappers
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 13 ounces
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