Huey L Kostanick - Population And Migration Trends In Eastern Europe

Population and Migration Trends in Eastern Europe edited by Huey Louis Kostanick

Eastern Europe is undergoing broad changes in demographic structure that have widened the ranges of population growth between countries and have created new problems of worker movement. This book, the result of a conference on demography and urbanization in Eastern Europe, contains both broad theoretical and conceptual essays and specific analyses of demographic structure. It provides, as well, prime examples of different methodologies, both quantitative and nonquantitative, in geography, anthropology, sociology, and economics. Interdisciplinary and international in scope, the book includes contributions by scholars from the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.

Huey Louis Kostanick is professor of geography at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he has taught since 1946.

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edited by Huey Louis Kostanick

First published 1977 by Westview Press, Inc.

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Population and migration trends in Eastern Europe.
(Westview special studies on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe)
Papers presented at an interdisciplinary conference on demography and urbanization in Eastern Europe held Feb. 5-9, 1976 under the sponsorship of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at U.C.L.A.
Bibliography: p.
1. Europe, EasternPopulationCongresses. 2. Migration, IntervalEurope. EasternCongresses. 3. UrbanizationEurope, EasternCongresses.
I. Kostanick, Huey Louis, 1918- II. California.

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-28386-5 (hbk)

The Conference on Demography and Urbanization in Eastern Europe was held in Los Angeles February 5-9, 1976. It was sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and was funded by grants from the Duke Fund at UCLA, the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

The conference had both an area and topical focus. Eastern Europe was defined as the area west of the Soviet Union between the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. This includes Poland, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey.

The sessions were devoted to discussions of demography, urbanization, and migration. Although the concentration was on the period following World War II, there was also some historical analysis. The conference was interdisciplinary, with representatives from geography, anthropology, sociology, economics, and history.

Although most of the participants were from the United States, others came from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Two were invited from Romania and Bulgaria but were unable to attend.

The participants were: Ivo Banac, History Department, Stanford University; Ivo Baui, Institute of Geography, University of Zagreb; Martha Dell Desch Brumbaugh, graduate student, Geography Department, University of California at Los Angeles; John R. Clark, Geography Department, University of California at Los Angeles; Frank W. Carter, Geography Department, University College, London; George J. Demko, Geography Department, Ohio State University, Columbus; Kazimierz Dziewoski, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences; Roland J. Fuchs, Geography Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Joel Halpern, Anthropology Department, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Ronald L. Hatchett, graduate student, Geography Department, University of Texas at Austin; George W. Hoffman, Geography Department, University of Texas at Austin; Leszek A. Kosiski, Geography Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; Huey Louis Kostanick, Geography Department, University of California at Los Angeles; John Mogey, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Boston University; Zdenk Pavlik, Pirodo-vdeck Faculta, Charles University, Prague; Thomas M. Poulsen, Geography Department, Portland State University; Irwin T. Sanders, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Boston University; Robert N. Taaffe, Geography Department, University of Indiana, Bloomington; Jozo Tomasevich, San Francisco State University; Evan Vlachos, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Colorado State University at Fort Collins; and Wayne S. Vucinich, History Department, Stanford University.

There were a number of visitors from other colleges and universities in the Los Angeles area and from other parts of the United States and Europe. In addition, graduate students from UCLA attended the sessions, as did some of the undergraduate students. The result was that over eighty people took part in the conference.

It was hoped that all the papers presented at the conference could be published, but the high costs of publication have made it necessary to publish only a representative group of papers. They represent different topics and different methodologies focusing on population trends in Eastern Europe.

I wish to express my thanks and appreciation to all the participants and to so many who helped make the conference a success. Dr. Henrik Birnbaum, Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at UCLA, and Mrs. Lucille Liets of the Center aided in the planning and logistics of the conference. My thanks to Dorothy Disterheft for typing the manuscript. I am indebted to Maria Birkas, Gail Lewis Hobbs, Christopher Harrell Kostanick, Cathy Enderton, and Joseph Beaton, all students who handled registration and taped the sessions. And I am most grateful to my wife, Celeste Budd Kostanick, whose constant encouragement and advice made the conference a reality.