Abstract
Abstract. Cartography of the Cold War era was very characteristic in the Eastern Bloc countries. The abnormal secrecy instructions forced by military cartographic authorities (following the Soviet advisors) influenced the making of all kinds of large- and medium-scale cartographic products for public use. Most of these maps were somehow distorted, although it was not easy to implement the technology of distortions developed by cartographers in the analogue map production era in the early 1960s. Tourist maps are expected to be created using topographic maps, but the access to classified topographic maps (both civilian and military) was limited for civilian users (even for civilian national mapping agencies, at least in the early years of the Cold War era). The tourist maps of this era were quite different from country to country in the Eastern Bloc, partly due to their cartographic traditions and to the relationships between the military and civilian cartography even influenced by the users’ demands.
Highlights
The main motivation of this paper is to draw the readers’ attention to the cartographic products of the Cold War era, and to encourage other researchers to uncover the hidden stories of this special time both in the former Eastern or Western Bloc countries
The differences were caused by the cartographic traditions and the diverse political situation of each country, the Soviet Union pushed these countries to follow or rather to copy their actions
Their practice was based on the cartographic traditions, on the need of domestic market and the potentially interesting areas for tourism
Summary
The main motivation of this paper is to draw the readers’ attention to the cartographic products of the Cold War era, and to encourage other researchers to uncover the hidden stories of this special time both in the former Eastern or Western Bloc countries. The political situation in the Eastern Bloc countries was not uniform either (not even in cartographic aspect). The differences were caused by the cartographic traditions and the diverse political situation of each country, the Soviet Union pushed these countries to follow or rather to copy their actions. In military-political terms, Yugoslavia was not an Eastern Bloc country, while Albania left the Soviet military alliance in 1961 (Matless et al, 2008)
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