Idéologie politique et pensée géographique en Union Soviétique

Abstract

The impact of political ideology on Soviet geographical thought — seemingly simple — has actually been highly complicated and even perverse. Some paradoxes : a) Soviet practice and philosophy are now as close to there pre 1917 traditions as are those of any National School, b) A the end of the Stalin period of total planning and ideological control, Soviet geography has become largely a physical science only weakly attuned to planning goals.. c) The "revolution" of the last decade or two, which has made Soviet geography more obviously "Marxist", was influenced most by a work which was labelled anti-Marxist by the geographical "establishment", d) The "ecological" and problem-oriented cast of present Soviet geography owes at least as much to world movements and to long-term Russian traditions as to Soviet ideology per se.The impact of political ideology on Soviet geographical thought — seemingly simple — has actually been highly complicated and even perverse. Some paradoxes : a) Soviet practice and philosophy are now as close to there pre 1917 traditions as are those of any National School, b) A the end of the Stalin period of total planning and ideological control, Soviet geography has become largely a physical science only weakly attuned to planning goals.. c) The "revolution" of the last decade or two, which has made Soviet geography more obviously "Marxist", was influenced most by a work which was labelled anti-Marxist by the geographical "establishment", d) The "ecological" and problem-oriented cast of present Soviet geography owes at least as much to world movements and to long-term Russian traditions as to Soviet ideology per se.Hooson David J. M. Idéologie politique et pensée géographique en Union Soviétique. In: Travaux de l'Institut Géographique de Reims, n°29-30, 1977. Géographie et théorie politique. pp. 39-45