Book ID: CBB001811907

The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History (2016)

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Bruno, Andy (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 305
Language: English

During the twentieth century, the Soviet Union turned the Kola Peninsula in the northwest corner of the country into one of the most populated, industrialized, militarized, and polluted parts of the Arctic. This transformation suggests, above all, that environmental relations fundamentally shaped the Soviet experience. Interactions with the natural world both enabled industrial livelihoods and curtailed socialist promises. Nature itself was a participant in the communist project. Taking a long-term comparative perspective, The Nature of Soviet Power sees Soviet environmental history as part of the global pursuit for unending economic growth among modern states. This in-depth exploration of railroad construction, the mining and processing of phosphorus-rich apatite, reindeer herding, nickel and copper smelting, and energy production in the region examines Soviet cultural perceptions of nature, plans for development, lived experiences, and modifications to the physical world. While Soviet power remade nature, nature also remade Soviet power.

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Authors & Contributors
Li, Fabiana
Olga Povoroznyuk
Johnson, Matthew P.
Marianne Sullivan
Mitzi Rossillon
Spears, Ellen Griffith
Concepts
Environmental degradation
Environmental history
Socialism
Industrialization
Pollution
Smelting
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
20th century, early
Progressive Era (1890s-1920s)
Places
Soviet Union
Arctic regions
United States
Russia
Polar regions
Norway
Institutions
World Bank
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