Rado,
Alex (1899-1981) -Atlas fur Politik Wirtschaft Arbeiterbewegung; I der
Imperialismus (1930) [Verlag fur Literatur und Politik; Wien/Brlin; p.168;
27/35 cm] cover. These are world and national
conflcits depicted from a official Soviet Union standpoint, 75 years ago.
Apart from the visual demagogy which inherently is part of each natioanl
view on global affairs, one can see that several of the conflicts depicted
here have continued to play a role in world history. It is also interesting
to note that the "national question" which officialy had been
solved by the Soviet Union (with Stalin as one of the big movers of whole
populations) are still there and have even led to the falling apart of
the former Czarist empire inherited by the state communists in the beginning
of last century, so this nice big proud blots of red inkt are transformed
again in complicated patterns of lines and hatches. tj.
The
second division of the world (919-1929): 3 grades for each area indicated
from left toright, 1 motherland and colonies, 2 areas of influences, 3
... of interest; blue = Great Brittain; (dotted) red = France; cross hatched
black - USA; hatched horizontal = Japan; hatched diagonal = Italy; black
= other colonial states; full red = Soviet Union proper; cross hatched
red = SU treaty countries; vertical hatched red = n"national revolutionary
countries of the east; dotted red = SU interests areas. [p.19]
Armament
for the next war: 1 figure = 50.000 men; 1 boat = 50.00 ship tonnage;
red = Soviet Union; blue = British imperium; black = USA; cross hatched
red = French imperium; cross hatched black/blue = Italian empire; cross
hatched black = Japanese empire. [p.29]
The
League of Nations (LN): black = non members; cross-hatched black = former
members who have left LN; white = LN members; red = LN mandates. [p.47]
The
British French opposition: red = britich; Black = French; stars are naval
supporting points; fat line = sea and airplane ways to India; black arrows
are french/british friction zones. [p.28]
German
border questions: vertical hatched red = former german areas handed over
ater Versaille treaty; fat red line = borders (now) of German state; dotted
red line = german borders before 1919. [p.87]
The
Near East: red = Soviet Union (SU); hatched red = Turky, Persia, Afghanistan
united by friendship treaties with the SU, black cross-hatched = British
colonies and mandates; hatched black = British influence and interest
areas; white = French colonies and mandates; red line = British airlines;
also note the railway line that links Turkey with the pelgrims towsn of
Medina (in Wahabiten Reich/state, now called Saoudi Arabia). [p.97]
Nationalities
in Rumania [p.125]
Nationalities
in South Slavia (yugo = south). [p.125]
The
economy of the United States of America: railway lines = over land railways;
balck circle = town with over half a million inhabitants; black ares =
coal; red areas = iron ore; black/red cross hatched areas = cupper; black
triangles = oil; red lines with notches = oil pipe lines; red rectangles
with black contour line = mangan; dots = dessert; plant sign = cotton;
factories, ships; 3 black columns = sugar cane. [p.143]
Nationalities
of the USA: red circles big white inhabitants towns (1 million/100 thousand);
black idem = negroes; red idem = Chinese Japanese; dooted red areas =
indains reservations. [p.145]
The
National Question in the European part of the Soviet Union: very fat line/point
= borders of the Soviet Union; short/long line = borders of Litauen according
to Russian treaty; fat short lines = borders of memeber states of the
SU; dashed line = borders of autonomous Soviet republics; pointed line
= borders of autonomous areas. [p.159]
National
question in Soviet Caucasus: comb like line = borders of Trans-Caucasian
Council Federation (TCCF); fat black line = borders of TCCF member states;
normal black line = borders of automonous Soviet republics; dotted line
= borders of autonomous areas. [p.161]
The
repressed nations of the world: full red = Soviet Union; cross hatched
red = social-revolutionary states with a bound to the SU; red text lines
= national minorities in Europe; { repressed coloured nations/people.
[p.163]
tnational
minorities in Europe: red circles = without autonomy; black circles =
with autonomy. [p.165]