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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 (2011)

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Discipline formation Government sponsored science Geography Textbooks 20th century, late Great Britain Eastern Europe Great Britain Soviet Union

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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Authors & Contributors
Higuchi, Toshihiro
Leo Marriott
Wall, Oisín
Turchetti, Simone
Taylor, Georgette
Radtka, Catherine
Journals
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Journal of Baltic Studies
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Science and Education
Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Publishers
Stanford University Press
Pen and Sword Books
University of Chicago Press
Routledge
Palgrave Macmillan
Concepts
Government sponsored science
Cold War
Discipline formation
Environmentalism
Societies; institutions; academies
Science and politics
People
Pontekorvo, Bruno
Zangwill, Oliver
Robinson, Robert
Martin, David Christie
Freud, Sigmund
Florey, Howard
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
Soviet Union
United States
France
Eastern Europe
Baltic States
Institutions
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Partial Test Ban Treaty; Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963)
Royal Society of London
Royal Society (Great Britain). European Science Exchange Programme
Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Harwell, England)
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
Akademiia Nauk SSSR
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