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3-7-46
DEP ARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE OF EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
March 24, 1951
MEMORANDUM
To:
Mr. Theodore Tannenwald, Jr.,
The White House
Tad:
I have looked through Shabad's Geography of
the USSR and have checked with several geographers.
They tell me that the author is not an outstanding
geographer but is believed to be a competent teacher.
He knows Russian well and, although their initial
impression is the book could be better, they say it
is not bad. The fact that it is organized on a
regional basis makes it rather difficult reading
and deprives it of the possibility of presenting a
well-balanced over-all picture. The authorities
I checked with said they considered the two follow-
ing Soviet texts, both of which have been translated
into English and published recently in this country,
better presentations of Soviet geography despite
the inevitable Soviet propaganda in them:
Balzak, Vasyutin, and Feigin: Economic Geography
of the USSR, MacMillan 1949.
Berg, The Natural Regions of the USSR,
MacMillan 1950.
Shabad's book does have, however, in its first
90 pages a general over-all survey of Soviet geo-
graphy which the President might find it worth his
while are of sufficient interest to thumb through.
and
FR
EUR: EE: :FReinhardt:AMR
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