Conceptualizing and Utilizing the Natural Environment: Critical Reflections from Imperial and Soviet Russia

Jonathan Oldfield; Julia Lajus; Denis J. B. Shaw

Conceptualizing and Utilizing the Natural Environment
Critical Reflections from Imperial and Soviet Russia

Edited by Jonathan Oldfield, Julia Lajus and Denis J. B. Shaw

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Slavonic and East European Review 93.1

Modern Humanities Research Association and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London

1 January 2015 • 211pp

ISBN: 978-1-781882-02-3 (paperback)

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Viewed through the lens of Soviet collapse and associated discourses concerning the destruction of nature, it is tempting to conclude that Russia has little to teach us beyond serving as an example of the crude appropriation of natural resources and efforts to manipulate natural systems on a large scale, typically with limited concern about collateral environmental damage.

Nevertheless, a closer analysis suggests a more nuanced situation, characterized by efforts to regulate the utilization of available natural resources, attempts to inventorize the considerable riches of Russia’s land, water and marine resources, and initiatives directed towards gaining a greater understanding of the inner workings of the natural world and associated processes.

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1	Conceptualizing and Utilizing the Natural Environment: Critical Reflections from Imperial and Soviet Russia Jonathan Oldfield, Julia Lajus, Denis J. B. Shaw	Cite
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3	‘The Sea on One Side, Trouble on the Other’: Russian Marine Resource use before Peter the Great Alexei Kraikovski	Cite
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4	The Beetle Question: The Growing Problem of Insect Infestations in South Russia in the Late Nineteenth Century Anastasia Fedotova	Cite
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5	Demographics, Inequality and Entitlements in the Russian Famine of 1891 Eric M. Johnson	Cite
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6	Mastering Nature through Science: Soviet Geographers and the Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature, 1948–53 Denis J. B. Shaw	Cite
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7	At the Watershed: 1958 and the Beginnings of Lake Baikal Environmentalism Nicholas B. Breyfogle	Cite
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8	Formulating the Global Environment: Soviet Soil Scientists and the International Desertification Discussion, 1968–91 Marc Elie	Cite
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Conceptualizing and Utilizing the Natural EnvironmentCritical Reflections from Imperial and Soviet Russia

Edited by Jonathan Oldfield, Julia Lajus and Denis J. B. Shaw

Conceptualizing and Utilizing the Natural Environment
Critical Reflections from Imperial and Soviet Russia