The Czar's Will on 1944 Europe
- Title:
- The Czar's Will on 1944 Europe
- Alternate Title:
- The Czar's Will on 1944 Europe
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Chapin, Robert M. Jr.
- Date:
- 1944
- Date 2:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2303.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2303_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1940 - 1959
- Subject:
- Communism & Cold War
World War II
Unusual Graphics/Text - Measurement:
- 15 x 12 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This map was published in Time Magazine eight weeks before D-Day in 1944. It illustrates an article reviewing four books concerning the post-war relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Three of the books predicted “a golden honeymoon,” but this map is based on the fourth, by David Dallin.
Dallin was a Russian emigre and anti-communist writer who saw “little besides gloomy foreboding.” (p.98.) He wrote that Russia had vast European ambitions, based on the discovery by the Bolsheviks of a plan in “the Czar’s secret archives” for “territorial and political demands after World War I.” (p.99.) The map reflects Dallin’s detailed specifics on Russian intentions to “annex” Poland, the Baltic States and Finland, and to exert “influence” over Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. The future turned out even beyond Dallin’s “gloomy foreboding.”
The publisher of Time Magazine, along with Life and Fortune, was Henry Luce, the most powerful American media figure of his era and a fierce anti-communist. Baughman 2001, 1-5. “Even before the disintegration of the U.S.-Soviet alliance, Luce’s magazines, in 1944 and 1945, started to question Russia’s intentions for the postwar world.” Ibid. 3-4.
Robert M. Chapin was an artist and long-time “Chief Cartographer” for Time. The collection includes a number of Chapin’s cold war maps reflecting Luce’s views: ID #2303, The Czar’s Will on 1944 Europe (1944); ID #1333, Communist Contagion (1946); ID #2010, West’s Germany (1949); ID #2012, Two Worlds (1950); ID ##1348.01-.02 & 1349, Europe From Moscow/Asia From Irkutsk (1952); ID #1359, Alaska (1958).
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- Time Magazine, April 3, 1944, p.98.
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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