Thinking Russia's History Environmentally

Catherine Evtuhov is Professor of History at Columbia University. Her books include Portrait of a Russian Province: Economy, Society & Civilization in Nineteenth-Century Nizhnii Novgorod (University of Pittsburgh Press 2011).

“Thinking Russia’s History Environmentally is a work of bold vision, grand synthesis, and fine detail in creative combination by an outstanding team of editors and authors. Making productive use of a growing body of international and domestic scholarship on Russian internal imperialism, infrastructures, industrial pollution, disasters, environmentalists, exotic animals, and natural resources from fish to fossil fuels this rich volume illuminates and opens up to global comparison a history that for a long time seemed both enclosed, enigmatic and exceptional.” • Sverker Sörlin, Professor of Environmental History, KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Stockholm

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNotes on the TextList of AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductionCatherine Evtuhov, Julia Lajus, and David MoonPart I: INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ITS ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXTSChapter 1. Natural Resources and Management Expertise in the Monastic Salt Industry of the White Sea Area in the 16th and 17th CenturiesAlexei Kraikovsky and Margarita DadykinaChapter 2. Early Russian Industrialization: An Environmental PerspectiveCatherine EvtuhovChapter 3. Seeing Oil: Isaak Levitan and the Industrial VolgaJane CostlowChapter 4. Kazan’ Citizens Against Air Pollution: The Case of the Ushkov & Co. Chemical Factory (1893-1917)Andrei VinogradovChapter 5. “Environing” the North: Fishing and Hunting in the Industrial Development of Khanty-Mansi Okrug, 1960-1975Evgenii GololobovPart II: HUMANS AND ANIMALSChapter 6. Camels in European Russia: Exotic Farm Animals and Agricultural KnowledgeAnna OlenenkoChapter 7. Public Health Across Species: Domestic Animals and Sanitary Reforms in Imperial RussiaAnna MazanikPart III: ENVIRONMENT AND POLITICS IN THE LATE SOVIET SPACEChapter 8. How Wetlands Entered the Transnational Spaces of Late Soviet EnvironmentalismKatja BruischChapter 9. “You ought to love nature!” Peoples’ Control Committees – Environmental Whistleblowers and West Siberian Oil in the 1970sValentina RoxoPart IV: GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENT PAST AND PRESENTChapter 10. Empire, Settlement and Environment: The Russian Empire and Donald Meinig’s “Macrogeography of Western Imperialism”Denis ShawChapter 11. Tracks across the Tundra: Making a Living from Nature in the Borderland of the Russian NorthwestUrban Wråkberg and Peter HaugsethAfterwordJ.R. McNeillGlossaryIndex