Political borders in Polish territory according to the Soviet atlas of 1940

The author presents Karmannyj Atlas Mira (Pocket Atlas of the World) which was published in Leningrad in 1940. It shows political borders existing in Polish territory at that time. Those borders resulted from the Soviet-German agreement reached in August and September 1939 in Moscow (the Molotov−Rib...

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Main Author: Eberhardt Piotr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2019-12-01
Series:Polish Cartographical Review
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/pcr-2019-0017
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description The author presents Karmannyj Atlas Mira (Pocket Atlas of the World) which was published in Leningrad in 1940. It shows political borders existing in Polish territory at that time. Those borders resulted from the Soviet-German agreement reached in August and September 1939 in Moscow (the Molotov−Ribbentrop pact). On the maps in the Atlas the territories of central Poland are described as “Oblast Gosudarstvennych Interesov Germanii” (Area of the National Interest of Germany). The maps were reprinted in the article in the original version and underwent a historical, political and geographical analysis.
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spelling doaj.art-f6c86fbf9b314a08bc5f13d797fb52912022-12-22T04:01:02ZengSciendoPolish Cartographical Review0324-83212450-69662019-12-0151420721410.2478/pcr-2019-0017pcr-2019-0017Political borders in Polish territory according to the Soviet atlas of 1940Eberhardt Piotr0Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography and Spatial OrganizationWarsaw, PolandThe author presents Karmannyj Atlas Mira (Pocket Atlas of the World) which was published in Leningrad in 1940. It shows political borders existing in Polish territory at that time. Those borders resulted from the Soviet-German agreement reached in August and September 1939 in Moscow (the Molotov−Ribbentrop pact). On the maps in the Atlas the territories of central Poland are described as “Oblast Gosudarstvennych Interesov Germanii” (Area of the National Interest of Germany). The maps were reprinted in the article in the original version and underwent a historical, political and geographical analysis.https://doi.org/10.2478/pcr-2019-0017karmannyj atlas miraborders of polandthe molotov−ribbentrop pact
spellingShingle Eberhardt Piotr
Political borders in Polish territory according to the Soviet atlas of 1940
Polish Cartographical Review
karmannyj atlas mira
borders of poland
the molotov−ribbentrop pact
title Political borders in Polish territory according to the Soviet atlas of 1940
title_full Political borders in Polish territory according to the Soviet atlas of 1940
title_fullStr Political borders in Polish territory according to the Soviet atlas of 1940
title_full_unstemmed Political borders in Polish territory according to the Soviet atlas of 1940
title_short Political borders in Polish territory according to the Soviet atlas of 1940
title_sort political borders in polish territory according to the soviet atlas of 1940
topic karmannyj atlas mira
borders of poland
the molotov−ribbentrop pact
url https://doi.org/10.2478/pcr-2019-0017
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