9781805390282

1805390287

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Intro

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Notes on the Text

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I

Industrialzation and Its Environmental Contexts

Chapter 1

Natural Resources and Management Expertise in the Monastic Salt Industry of the White Sea Area in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Chapter 2

Early Russian Industrialization: An Environmental Perspective

Chapter 3

Seeing Oil: Isaak Levitan and the Industrial Volga

Chapter 4

Kazan' Citizens against Air Pollution: The Case of the Ushkov & Co. Chemical Factory (1893-1917)

Chapter 5

"Environing" the North: Fishing and Hunting in the Industrial Development of Khanty-Mansi Okrug, 1960-75

Part II

Humans and Animals

Chapter 6

Camels in European Russia: Exotic Farm Animals and Agricultural Knowledge

Chapter 7

Public Health across Species: Domestic Animals and Sanitary Reforms in Imperial Russia

Part III

Environment and Politics in the Late Soviet Space

Chapter 8

How Wetlands Entered the Transnational Spaces of Late Soviet Environmentalism

Chapter 9

"You Ought to Love Nature!": People's Control Committees-Environmental Whistleblowers and Western Siberian Oil in the 1970s

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"

Chapter 11

Tracks across the Tundra: Making a Liveing from Nature in the Borderland of the Russian Northwest

Afterword

Russian and Soviet Environmental History: Unexceptionalism and Exceptionalism

Glossary

Index

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