The Russian cold : histories of ice, frost, and snow /

"Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the borders of Russia and the Soviet Union, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Herzberg, Julia (Autor, Editor ), Renner, Andreas, 1964- (Autor, Editor ), Shirle, I. (Ingrid) (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2021.
Colección:Environment in history ; v. 22.
Temas:
National characteristics, Russian.
Winter > Social aspects > Russia (Federation)
Human beings > Effect of environment on > Russia (Federation)
Cold.
Russians.
Russes.
Hiver > Aspect social > Russie.
Homme > Influence de l'environnement > Russie.
Froid.
cold.
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Climatology.
Ecology.
Human beings > Effect of environment on.
Manners and customs.
Winter > Social aspects.
Russia (Federation) > History.
Russia (Federation) > Social life and customs.
Russia (Federation) > Environmental conditions.
Russia (Federation) > Climate.
Russia (Federation)
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The Russian cold / Julia Herzberg, Andreas Renner, and Ingrid Schierle
  • Chapter 1. Climate ideas and the cold in Russia / Julia Herzberg
  • Chapter 2. The nature of cold: Russia's climate and the Academy of Sciences in the eighteenth century / Julia Herzberg
  • Chapter 3. The Russian South Pole Expedition in the context of political interests of the Soviet Union during the Cold War era / Erki Tammiksaar
  • Chapter 4. The Subarctic: a classic Soviet study of the Tundra / Denis J. B. Shaw
  • Chapter 5. From a "country of cold and gloom" to a "welcoming land": climate and the image of Siberia in the Russian periodical press, 1860s to the early 1900s / Nataliia Rodigina
  • Chapter 6. Local warming: cold, ice, and snow in Russian and Soviet cinema [with] Appendix: filmography / Oksana Bulgakowa
  • Chapter 7. The aesthetics of cold: narrating national trauma in film / Roman Mauer
  • Chapter 8. The Wehrmacht and the Russian winter: the impact of climate at the front and in Soviet captivity / Aleksandr Kuzminykh
  • Chapter 9. Winter tourism and skiing in the Soviet Union: school of courage, source of health, national pastime / Aleksei Popov
  • Chapter 10. Heroes of the ice: the Polar explorer and the hockey player as two masculine identity scripts of the Soviet era / Alexander Ananyev
  • Conclusion / Julia Herzberg, Andreas Renner, and Ingrid Schierle
  • Index.

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