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Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in Russia's Great War and Revolution, 1914-22 /

"This multi-author collection of sixteen essays examines a wide variety of topics related to developments in Russian science, technology, environmental policy, and medicine during the Great War and ensuing Civil War, c. 1914-1924"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Laĭus, I︠U︡. A. (I︠U︡lii︠a︡ Aleksandrovna) (Editor ), Palmer, Scott W., 1967- (Editor ), Heywood, Anthony (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Slavica, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Continuity amid Change: Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine across Russia's Great War and Revolutions / Scott W. Palmer
  • I. Science, Technology, and Politics
  • Scientific and Industrial Research in Russia on the Eve of and During the First World War / Dmitrii L. Saprykin
  • The Fuel Crisis in Petrograd during the First World War and the Birth of the Oil Shale Industry in Russia and Estonia / Erki Tammiksaar
  • Technological and Entrepreneurial Visions in Russia's Quest for Arctic Coal, 1912-1925 / Dag Avango, Vasilii Borovoi, Julia Lajus
  • The Last Days of the Nobels: Oil and Geopolitics in the Caucasus, 1917-1920 / Per Hogselius
  • Should I Stay or Should I Go? Russian Scientists, Relief/Aid Organizations and Everyday Life (Byt) in War, Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1922 / James T. Andrews
  • Two Lives in One Country: The "Bourgeois Specialist" Engineer G. O. Graftio in the Service of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat / Viktoriia V. Kugai
  • American Tractors, Soviet Soil: Agricultural Reconstruction and US-Soviet Technology Transfer, 1921-1923 / Maria Fedorova
  • War, Revolution, and the Production of ScientificKnowledge about the Periphery: The Emergence of the Soviet Kraevedenie Project / Sofia Gavrilova
  • Space-Time, Death-Resurrection, and the Russian Revolution / Alexei Kojevnikov
  • II. Environment
  • limate, Weather, and Tsarist Russia's Great War, 1914-1917: The Wartime Winters / Anthony J. Heywood
  • Embattled Nature: Men and Landscapes on the Eastern Front of the First World War / Iaroslav A. Golubinov and Oksana S. Nagornaia
  • Mobilization and Ecology in the Russian Theater of War (1914-17) / Aleksandr B. Astashov
  • Environment and Warfare in the Russian Civil War: Nature as an Enemy in Karelia / Tamara Polyakova
  • Environmental Impacts of Industrial Warfare and Revolution: "Producing Death" at the Shlissel'burg
  • Gunpowder Works, 1914-24 / Dmitrii Ivanov
  • Environmental Perspectives on Social Unrest and Economic Collapse in Turkestan, 1916-19 / Jennifer Keating
  • III. Medicine
  • The Red Army and Epidemic Disease in the Russian Civil War / David R. Stone
  • The Military Context of Bolshevik Health Practices: The Red Army on its Eastern Front in 1918 / Evgenii O. Naumov
  • Conclusion: Choices and Circumstances that Defined Future Modernization / Sari Autio-Sarasmo