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This new work by Turnock (University of Leicester, UK) follows his The Making of Eastern Europe (CH, Apr'89), and is intended to serve as a complement to it, together with his companion volume, The Human Geography of Eastern Europe (CH, Nov'89). While the latter deals with trade, transport, energy, settlement patterns, and conservation, the coverage of this volume is divided equally between political and economic geography. Turnock focuses on the post-WW II period, and he sets the economic and political geography of this part of the world, so much in the news today, in the broad context of its history and physical landscape. Part 1 begins with a discussion of communist power in Eastern Europe, then deals with postwar changes in state boundaries, the regional dimension, and population problems. Part 2 commences with economic growth and central planning, then turns to sectoral analysis: industry (planning technology and regional development); socialist agriculture and its drive for self-sufficiency; and tourism (evaluating the importance of foreign visitors). Extensive bibliography; numerous figures and tables. Compare with An Economic Geography of Hungary ed. by Tivadar Bernat (see above). Upper-division and graduate collections. -B. B. Brown Jr., Southern Oregon State College
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