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Exploring Russia's Environmental History This book offers new perspectives on the environmental history of lands that have come under Russian and Soviet rule by paying attention to 'place' and 'nature' in the intersection between humans and the environments that surround them. Through case studies of specific places in northwestern Russia, for example the Solovetskie Islands, the Urals, Siberia, in particular Lake Baikal, and the Russian Far East, the book highlights the importance of local environments and the specificities of individual places and spaces in understanding the human-nature nexus. This focus is accentuated by the fact that the authors have considerable, first-hand experience of the places they write about that complements and supplements their research in textual sources.

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Author:   David Moon ,  Nicholas Breyfogle ,  Alexandra Bekasova
Publisher:   White Horse Press
Imprint:   White Horse Press
ISBN:  

9781912186167

ISBN 10:   1912186160
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   01 February 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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TABLE OF CONTENTS David Moon, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Alexandra Bekasova and Julia Lajus Place and Nature: An Introduction PART I. THE NORTHWEST AND THE EUROPEAN NORTH OF RUSSIA 2. Alexei Kraikovski and Julia Lajus 'The Space of Blue and Gold': The Nature and Environment of Solovki in History and Heritage. 3. Andy Bruno Polluted Pearl of the North: Lake Imandra in the Anthropocene 4. Alan Roe, The Vision and the Reality in the Taiga of Karelia and the Arkhangel'sk Oblast': Oleg Cherviakov and Vodlozero National Park 5. Robert Dale, 'There, Where They Have Grown Accustomed to Flooding': Comparing the St Petersburg Flood of November 1824 and the Leningrad Flood of September 1924 PART II. BEING THERE: PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS 6. Nicholas B. Breyfogle Faith and Nature on Solovki 7. Catherine Evtuhov Industrial Heritage in the Urals 8. Bryce Stewart New Dams, Warming Waters, Forest Fires: Lake Baikal in Peril 9. David Moon A Shaggy-Bear Story: An Environmental History from a Remote Region PART III. SIBERIA AND THE PACIFIC FAR EAST 10. Alexandra Bekasova and Ekaterina Kalemeneva Trans-Siberian 'Landscapes of Transportation' through the Lens of Travel Guidebooks in Late Imperial Russia 11. Arkady Kalikhman and Tatiana Kalikhman The Environmental History of Lake Baikal 12. Nicholas B. Breyfogle The Origins of the Barguzin Nature Reserve 13. Elena Kochetkova Baikal Waters: Industrial Development and Institutional Debates, 1950s-1970s 14. Mark Sokolsky Hunting, Civil Society and Wildlife Conservation in the Russian Far East

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