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Russian Cold, The : Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow / ed. by Ingrid Schierle, Julia Herzberg, Andreas Renner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Environment in History: International Perspectives ; 22Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781800731288
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  • 947.086 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- PART I Foundations -- Introduction: The Russian Cold -- CHAPTER 1 Climate Ideas and the Cold in Russia -- PART II Science and Politics -- CHAPTER 2 The Nature of Cold: Russia’s Climate and the Academy of Sciences in the Eighteenth Century -- CHAPTER 3 The Russian South Pole Expedition in the Context of Political Interests of the Soviet Union during the Cold War Era -- CHAPTER 4 The Subarctic: A Classic Soviet Study of the Tundra -- PART III Images and Narratives -- 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 -- CHAPTER 6 Local Warming: Cold, Ice, and Snow in Russian and Soviet Cinema -- CHAPTER 7 Th e Aesthetics of Cold: Narrating National Trauma in Film -- PART IV Pain and Pleasure -- CHAPTER 8 The Wehrmacht and the Russian Winter: The Impact of Climate at the Front and in Soviet Captivity -- CHAPTER 9 Winter Tourism and Skiing in the Soviet Union: School of Courage, Source of Health, National Pastime -- CHAPTER 10 Heroes of the Ice: The Polar Explorer and the Ice Hockey Player as Two Masculine Identity Scripts of the Soviet Era -- Conclusion -- Index
Summary: 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 traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history. In chapters encompassing such diverse topics as polar exploration, the Eastern Front in World War II, and the iconography of hockey, it explores the multiplicity and ambiguity of “cold” in the Russian context and demonstrates the value of environmental-historical research for enriching national and imperial histories.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- PART I Foundations -- Introduction: The Russian Cold -- CHAPTER 1 Climate Ideas and the Cold in Russia -- PART II Science and Politics -- CHAPTER 2 The Nature of Cold: Russia’s Climate and the Academy of Sciences in the Eighteenth Century -- CHAPTER 3 The Russian South Pole Expedition in the Context of Political Interests of the Soviet Union during the Cold War Era -- CHAPTER 4 The Subarctic: A Classic Soviet Study of the Tundra -- PART III Images and Narratives -- 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 -- CHAPTER 6 Local Warming: Cold, Ice, and Snow in Russian and Soviet Cinema -- CHAPTER 7 Th e Aesthetics of Cold: Narrating National Trauma in Film -- PART IV Pain and Pleasure -- CHAPTER 8 The Wehrmacht and the Russian Winter: The Impact of Climate at the Front and in Soviet Captivity -- CHAPTER 9 Winter Tourism and Skiing in the Soviet Union: School of Courage, Source of Health, National Pastime -- CHAPTER 10 Heroes of the Ice: The Polar Explorer and the Ice Hockey Player as Two Masculine Identity Scripts of the Soviet Era -- Conclusion -- Index

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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 traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history. In chapters encompassing such diverse topics as polar exploration, the Eastern Front in World War II, and the iconography of hockey, it explores the multiplicity and ambiguity of “cold” in the Russian context and demonstrates the value of environmental-historical research for enriching national and imperial histories.

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