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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Josephson, Paul R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Natural resources > Arctic regions > History.
Environmental degradation > Arctic regions > History.
Indigenous peoples > Arctic regions > History.
Political persecution > Arctic regions > History.
Ressources naturelles > Arctique > Histoire.
Environnement > Dégradation > Arctique > Histoire.
Répression politique > Arctique > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
HISTORY > Europe > Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Ecology
Environmental degradation
Indigenous peoples
Natural resources
Political persecution
Politics and government
International relations
Strategic aspects of individual places
Territorial expansion
Arctic regions > Politics and government.
Arctic regions > Strategic aspects.
Soviet Union > Territorial expansion.
Soviet Union > Relations > Arctic regions.
Arctic regions > Relations > Soviet Union.
Arctic regions > Environmental conditions.
Arctique > Aspect stratégique.
Arctique > Relations > URSS.
Arctique > Conditions environnementales.
Arctic Regions
Soviet Union
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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