Cartographic analysis of Soviet military city plans

Cartographic analysis of Soviet military city plans / Martin Davis.

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 seri...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Martin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2022.
Series:Springer theses.
Subjects:
Cartography > Soviet Union > History.
Topographic maps > History.
Cartography
Topographic maps
Soviet Union
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Similar Items