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1 online resource |
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Springer theses |
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Springer theses.
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Intro -- Supervisor's Foreword -- Abstract -- Elements of the research presented in this thesis have been developed further in the following publications and conferences: -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Standardised Mapping of the World -- Objectives of the Research -- References -- Contents -- 1 Russian and Soviet Cartography: A Concise History -- 1.1 The Origins of Cartography in Russia -- 1.1.1 Maps for an Emerging State -- 1.1.2 The Legacy of the Pre-Petrine Era -- 1.2 The Reforms and Legacy of Peter the Great -- 1.2.1 European Influence |
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1.3 The Emergence of Russian Military Cartography -- 1.3.1 Foundations of the General Staff -- 1.4 The Changing Agenda of Russian Cartography in the Nineteenth Century -- 1.4.1 Expressions of Enlightened Governance -- 1.4.2 The Institutional Framework in the Early 1800s -- 1.4.3 Developments in Ethnic Imperial Cartography -- 1.4.4 The Imperial Russian Geographical Society (IRGO) -- 1.4.5 Nineteenth Century Military-Cartographic Reforms and the Demise of the Empire -- 1.5 New Cartography for a New Ideology: The Development of Soviet Mapping -- 1.5.1 Origins Under Lenin |
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1.5.2 Stalinist Expansion of Military Cartography -- 1.5.3 The Inception of Soviet Civil Surveys -- 1.5.4 Mapping in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) and its Aftermath -- 1.5.5 Civil Cartography After Stalin -- 1.5.6 The Soviet Mapping of the World (1945-1991) -- 1.5.7 The Dissemination of Soviet Military Maps -- 1.6 The Persistent Traits of Russian Cartography -- References -- 2 An Introduction to Soviet Military City Plans -- 2.1 Coverage, Rationale and Basic Characteristics -- 2.1.1 Production Trends -- 2.2 Plan Content, Components and Layout -- 2.2.1 Title Blocks -- 2.2.2 The Spravka |
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2.2.3 Lists of Important Objects -- 2.2.4 Lists of Street Names -- 2.2.5 Schematic Metro Diagrams -- 2.2.6 Separate Booklets for the Spravka, Lists and Diagrams -- 2.2.7 Topographic Insets -- 2.2.8 Marginalia -- 2.3 Mathematical and Geodetic Basis -- 2.4 Stylistic Development of the Series -- 2.4.1 Phase 1 -- 2.4.2 Phase 2 -- 2.4.3 Phase 3 -- 2.4.4 Phase 4 -- 2.4.5 Phase 5 -- 2.4.6 Prague, Czechoslovakia (1980) -- 2.5 Production Processes -- 2.5.1 Selection and Preparation of Source Materials -- 2.5.2 Compilation Methods -- 2.5.3 Revision of City Plans -- 2.5.4 Record Files -- 2.6 Related Series |
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2.6.1 Civil (GUGK) City Plans -- 2.6.2 GUGK 1:2,000 and 1:5,000 Plans -- 2.6.3 Plan Schema -- 2.6.4 Sister Series in Other Warsaw Pact States -- References -- 3 Towards an Ontogenetic Approach to Soviet Military City Plans: A Post-Representational Epistemology -- 3.1 Fundamentals of Harleian Deconstruction -- 3.1.1 Background -- 3.1.2 Fundamentals of Knowledge -- 3.1.3 'The Rules of Cartography' -- 3.2 Foundations of Deconstruction -- 3.2.1 Spotting the Différance -- 3.2.2 Absolute Absence -- 3.3 'Deconstruction and the Cartographic Text' -- 3.3.1 Power and Governmentality |
| Summary |
The collapse of the Soviet Union has seen the emergence of its unprecedentedly comprehensive global secret military mapping project and the commercial availability of a vast number of detailed topographic maps and city plans at several scales. This thesis provides an in-depth examination of the series of over 2,000 large-scale city plans produced in secret by the Military Topographic Directorate (NwOENNOE TOPOGRAFIĚ‚ESKOE UPRAWLENIE) of the General Staff between the end of the Second World War and the collapse of the USSR in 1991. After positioning the series in its historical context, the nature and content of the plans are examined in detail. A poststructuralist perspective introduces possibilities to utilise and apply the maps in new contexts, which this thesis facilitates by providing a systematic, empirical analysis of the Soviet map symbology at 1:10,000 and 1:25,000, using new translations of production manuals and a sample of the city plans. A comparative analysis with the current OpenStreetMap symbology indicates scope for Soviet mapping to be used as a valuable supplementary topographic resource in a variety of existing and future global mapping initiatives, including humanitarian crisis mapping. This leads to a conclusion that the relevance and value of Soviet military maps endure in modern applications, both as a source of data and as a means of overcoming contemporary cartographic challenges relating to symbology, design and the handling of large datasets |
| Notes |
"Doctoral Thesis accepted by Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 11, 2021) |
| Subject |
Cartography -- Soviet Union -- History
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Topographic maps -- History
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Cartography
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Topographic maps
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Soviet Union
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030840174 |
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3030840174 |
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