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THE GEOGRAPHICAL
REVIEW THE GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW the essay on Russian population and history primarily for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries seems to be a little out of place. Individual articles survey sources of demographic data for the Soviet Union and for East-Central Europe, but the balance is again upset by the fact that although an article that surveys recent demographic research on the SovietUnion is included, no comparable article exists for Eastern Europe. Overall, the book appears to be a collection of somewhat unconnected articles, with no integrating format and only a oneparagraph survey of topics and chapters. Individually, the articles in the book are generally worthwhile contributions to the study of Soviet and Eastern European demography. Two of the essays deal primarily with fertility in both the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, one with the Soviet Union and the world population crisis, and three with overall population trends in individual areas. Of the five essays on migration, three focus on Eastern Europe, one on international migrations involving both Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and one on Soviet internal migration. The appreciable number of articles that deal with migration and other geographical aspects of population reflects the fact that more than half of the contributors are geographers. All in all, despite some shortcomings, this book is a useful and welcome addition to the fields of Soviet and Eastern European demography and geography.-RICHARD H. ROWLAND CONTEMPORARY AFRICA: Geography and Change. Edited by C. GREGORY KNIGHT and JAMES L. NEWMAN. xiv and 546 pp.; maps, diagrs., ills., bibliogr., indexes. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1976. $14.95. 9/4 x 6 inches. AFRICAN SURVEY. By ALAN C. G. BEST and HARM J. DE BLIJ. xi and 626 pp.; maps, diagrs., ills., bibliogr., indexes. John Wiley and Sons, New York, Santa Barbara, California, London, and elsewhere, 1977. $17.95. o101/4 x 7 inches.