The conquest of the Russian Arctic /
Main Description:Spanning nine time zones from Norway to the Bering Strait, the immense Russian Arctic was mostly unexplored before the twentieth century. This changed rapidly in the 1920s, when the Soviet Union implemented plans for its conquest. The Conquest of the Russian Arctic, a definitive pol...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Charting the Arctic landscape
- Neither cod nor coal
- The role of the Gulag in Arctic conquest
- The best-laid plans of commissars and Komsomolki : the Arctic sciences of places and people
- The nickel that broke the reindeer's back
- Transformation of taiga and tundra
- Rediscovering the Arctic.