Thinking Russia's History Environmentally

Historians of Russia were relative latecomers to the field of environmental history. Yet, in the past decade, the exploration of Russian environmental history has burgeoned. __Exploring Russia’s History Environmentally__ showcases collaboration amongst an international set of scholars who focus on the contribution that the study of Russian environments makes to the global environmental field. Through discerning analysis of natural resources, the environment as a factor in historical processes such as industrialization, and more recent human-animal interactions, this volume challenges stereotypes of Russian history and inso doing, highlights the unexpected importance of Russian environments across a time framewell beyond the ecological catastrophes of the Soviet period. Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on the Text List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I. INDUSTRIALIZATION 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: Th e 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 Chapter 10. Empire, Settlement, and Environment: Th e Russian Empire and Donald Meinig’s “Macrogeography of Western Imperialism” Chapter 11. Tracks across the Tundra: Making a Living from Nature in the Borderland of the Russian Northwest Afterword. Russian and Soviet Environmental History: Unexceptionalism and Exceptionalism Glossary Index Historians of Russia were relative latecomers to the field of environmental history. Yet, in the past decade, the exploration of Russian environmental history has burgeoned. Thinking Russia's History Environmentally showcases collaboration amongst an international set of scholars who focus on the contribution that the study of Russian environments makes to the global environmental field. Through discerning analysis of natural resources, the environment as a factor in historical processes such as industrialization, and more recent human-animal interactions, this volume challenges stereotypes of Russian history and in so doing, highlights the unexpected importance of Russian environments across a time frame well beyond the ecological catastrophes of the Soviet period.