Geography of the Soviet Union

In line with the tremendous complexity in describing such a vast region, this paper will be divided into five major sections: an overview of the basic geographical features and a description of some of the issues surrounding historical geography in the Soviet Union; will then turn to a description of six of the major regions in the U.S.S.R., among which the paper will discuss the Central Economic, Volga Economic, Belorussian, Baltic, and Caucasus regions. Although these by no means constitute the entire geographical description of the country, the limits of this paper are such that it would be impossible to adequately describe the

1 Leslie Symons, et.al., The Soviet Union  A Systematic Geography, (Totawa: Barnes & Noble Books, 1983), vii.

fifteen republics and over nineteen identifiable regions. In order to focus on the most important issues for each region, the paper will limit itself to population, economic and cultural diversity, geolo

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on the effects of collectivzation is, Vladimir Brovkin, "Robert Conquest's 'Harvest of Sorrow': A Challenge to the Rvisionists," Harvard Ukranian Research Forum 1112 (1987): 23445. Eastern Europe to the Pacific Ocean, and the country borders the European, Middle Eastern, and Asian regions with millions of kilometers of border.3 Within the region itself, the literature in geography has a long tradition in its historical stance. In fact, "the patterns of evolution of societies and cultures, the dynamics of economic and political organizations, the human modification of landscapes, the geography of places in past periods, have captured the attention of historicallyminded" geographers and historians alike, and all act in congruence to buttress the understanding of the interaction between regions within such a vast country.4 Moreover, it is this very tradition that gives the regionalistic conception of the Soviet Union its current validity in both the historical and geographical professions. Regionally, the U.S.S.R.'s small Central Economic Region (2.2 percent of the country's size) is the most populous region in the country. The area is located around the Soviet Union's capital city, Moscow, and is highly industrialized a
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