Red Arctic
Polar Exploration and the Myth of the North in the Soviet Union, 1932-1939
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 May 1998
- ISBN 9780195114362
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 160x237x22 mm
- Weight 558 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 halftones, 3 line figures, 1 map 0
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Short description:
Red Arctic tells the history of Stalinist Russia's massive campaign to explore and develop its Northern territories during the 1930s. McCannon tells the dramatic stories of the polar expeditions - conducted by foot, ship, and plane - which were the pride of Stalinist Russia, to expose the reality behind them: chaotic blunders, bureaucratic competition, and the eventual rise of the GULAG as the dominant force in the North.
Dramatic stories of the first polar explorations, the record-breaking flights and rescues by both foot and ice-breaker.
First examination of the Stalinist creation of the myth of the arctic in the face of the rise of the GULAG.
Long description:
A work of refreshing originality and vivid appeal, Red Arctic tells the story of Stalinist Russia's massive campaign to explore and develop its Northern territories during the 1930s. Author John McCannon recounts the dramatic stories of the polar expeditions--conducted by foot, ship, and plane--that were the pride of Stalinist Russia, in order to expose the reality behind them: chaotic blunders, bureaucratic competition, and the eventual rise of the Gulag as the dominant force in the North. Red Arctic also traces the development of the polar-based popular culture of the decade, making use of memoirs, films, radio broadcasts, children's books, and cultural ephemera ranging from placards to postage stamps to show how Russia's "Arctic Myth" became an integral part of the overall socialist-realist aesthetic that animated Stalinist culture throughout the 1930s.
A probing and thoroughly engrossing account. Professor McCannon makes judicious use of once secret Russian archives to produce a fascinating study of one of the most neglected aspects of Soviet history in the pre-World War II Stalin era.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Footholds in the North: The Russians in the Arctic, 1500-1932
Thge Commissariat of Ice: The Rise of Glavsevmorput
Days of Glory: The Major Expeditions, 1932-1939
"From Victory to Victory": The Myth of the Arctic in Soviet Culture
Between Rhetoric and Reality: Manufacturing the Arctic Myth
Polestar Descending: Glavsevmorput in Decline, 1936-1939
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
