Thinking Russia's History Environmentally by Evtuhov, Catherine; Lajus, Julia; Moon, David;

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Thinking Russia’s History Environmentallybrings together an international set of scholars to showcase the contribution that the study of Russian environments makes to the global environmental field. It challenges the stereotypes of Russian history, highlighting lesser-known features of the nation’s environments...

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Historians of Russia were relative latecomers to the field of environmental history. Yet, in the past decade, the exploration of Russian environmental history has burgeoned. Thinking Russia’s History Environmentally showcases collaboration amongst an international set of scholars who focus on the contribution that the study of Russian environments makes to the global environmental field. Through discerning analysis of natural resources, the environment as a factor in historical processes such as industrialization, and more recent human-animal interactions, this volume challenges stereotypes of Russian history and in so doing, highlights the unexpected importance of Russian environments across a time frame well beyond the ecological catastrophes of the Soviet period.

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List of Illustrations
AcknowledgmentsNotes on the Text
List of Abbreviations
Preface

Introduction
Catherine Evtuhov, Julia Lajus, and David Moon

Part I: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ITS ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXTS

Chapter 1. Natural Resources and Management Expertise in the Monastic Salt Industry of the White Sea Area in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Alexei Kraikovsky and Margarita Dadykina

Chapter 2. Early Russian Industrialization: An Environmental Perspective
Catherine Evtuhov

Chapter 3. Seeing Oil: Isaak Levitan and the Industrial Volga
Jane Costlow

Chapter 4. Kazan’ Citizens Against Air Pollution: The Case of the Ushkov & Co. Chemical Factory (1893-1917)
Andrei Vinogradov

Chapter 5. “Environing” the North: Fishing and Hunting in the Industrial Development of Khanty-Mansi Okrug, 1960-1975
Evgenii Gololobov

Part II: HUMANS AND ANIMALS

Chapter 6. Camels in European Russia: Exotic Farm Animals and Agricultural Knowledge
Anna Olenenko

Chapter 7. Public Health Across Species: Domestic Animals and Sanitary Reforms in Imperial Russia
Anna Mazanik

Part III: ENVIRONMENT AND POLITICS IN THE LATE SOVIET SPACE

Chapter 8. How Wetlands Entered the Transnational Spaces of Late Soviet Environmentalism
Katja Bruisch

Chapter 9. “You ought to love nature!” Peoples’ Control Committees – Environmental Whistleblowers and West Siberian Oil in the 1970s
Valentina Roxo

Part IV: GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENT PAST AND PRESENT

Chapter 10. Empire, Settlement and Environment: The Russian Empire and Donald Meinig’s “Macrogeography of Western Imperialism”
Denis Shaw

Chapter 11. Tracks across the Tundra: Making a Living from Nature in the Borderland of the Russian Northwest
Urban Wråkberg and Peter Haugseth

Afterword
J.R. McNeill

Glossary

Index