U.R.S.S. Relations économiques extérieures
- Title:
- U.R.S.S. Relations économiques extérieures
- Alternate Title:
- U.R.S.S. Relations économiques extérieures
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Other Creators:
- Agence de presse Novosti, publisher
- Date:
- 1978
- Date 2:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2302.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2302_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1960 - Present
- Subject:
- Communism & Cold War
Money & Finance - Measurement:
- 67 x 48 sheet (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- The most obvious clue to understanding this cold war poster map is its language. The Communist and Socialist parties continued to show strength in France in 1978, winning more than 40 percent of the votes in the National Assembly election that year. And this poster is plainly intended to exploit “France’s decade-long twin phenomenon of growing self-doubt as a nation and of an ever intensifying anti-Americanism.” Sheppe 2010. Moreover, this map illustrates a remarkable number of techniques available to the persuasive cartographer.
Use of a north polar projection puts the Soviet Union at the center of the map and enhances its apparent relative size.
The list of more than 100 nations on five continents emphasizes the scope of its trade, but this impression is misleading because there is no information about the volume of trade with any country.
The lines radiating from Moscow are entirely unnecessary, since they add no information to the list of countries, but they foster the image of Russia as the hub of world economic activity.
Pictorial elements - ships, a modern jet aircraft, symbols of the goods traded - serve to soften the message, as does the use of a subtle pink for the Soviet Union (a sharp contrast from the blood red used on Western maps of the period).
Above the map is a lengthy quote from Leonid Brezhnev explaining that the Soviet Union considers foreign trade “as an effective means of better accomplishing political and economic tasks,” because it not only “increases the power and cohesion of the socialist community,” but “facilitates the reorientation” of developing nations “on progressive principles,” and fosters “peaceful coexistence” with capitalist states.
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- Image
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