Dan V. E. Course of economic geography.

Dan V. E. Course of economic geography.
L. State publishing house Printing house Printing yard 1924 652 p., map on a separate sheet, ill. Hardcover, 15 x 22.5 cm. Slight scuffing of the cover and spine, otherwise in good condition.

Vladimir Eduardovich den (1863-1933) was a German-born Russian economic geographer and statistician. He graduated from the faculty of law of Moscow University and trained at Heidelberg, Berlin and Munich universities in Germany. In 1902, he founded the first Department of economic geography in the Russian Empire at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute. Since the beginning of the 1930s, the systematic destruction of the scientific direction created by Vladimir den began. His successor as head of the Department of economic geography, Heinrich Mebus, committed suicide after being summoned for questioning (1931). After that, M. p. Bogdanchikov, who was previously a teacher at a military University, was appointed head of the Department created by den. In the 30s of the 20th century, the school of D. broke up; his students switched to the position of Marxist-Leninist economic geography. Main works: "on the forms of enterprise" (1907), " coal And iron industry "(1907), " Essays on economic geography "(part 1, 1908), " Course of economic geography "(1924), " the Position of Russia in the world economy " (1922). Dehn's books ceased to be published and reprinted, and his views were declared erroneous and harmful to science as discrediting the ideas of socialist construction. The first publication about Vladimir Den after the 1930s appeared only in 1949, but his books were never reprinted again, and his contribution to science was hushed up.