The Soviet Union -a geographer's re-appraisal

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English

Bibliographic Citation

The California Geographer 2: 1-8

Notes

Until 1956 there was not much opportunity in the postwar period for Americans to visit the Soviet Union because of Soviet restrictions on visits. But since 1956 a change of policy has resulted in the encouragement of foreign travel to selected areas of the Soviet Union. The result has been an annual wave of visitors, including thousands of Americans ( 10,000 in 1959 and 15,000 in 1960) who flocked to see "what the Soviet Union is really like!" This easing of barriers has made it possible also for a number of American geographers to visit the Soviet Union and thus gain first-hand knowledge of the Soviet way of life. It was my privilege in the summer of 1959 to visit the Soviet Union for a period of three months. During that time Intourist, the Soviet official tourist agency, was most cooperative in arranging tours to various regions and visits to geographical departments of universities and to geographical institutes of the Soviet Academy of Science.

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