Professor Seegel will survey the biographical arcs of six leading national geographers, in Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Germany, and the United States, through their formative intellectual training in European colonial geography before World War I and in the context of the Bolshevik Revolution. Drawing on unpublished sources, including private documents and correspondence in the burgeoning network of Europe’s expertocratic, state-serving geographers of the 1920s, the presentation will ana