Making nature modern: economic transformation and the environment in the Soviet north

• Main Author: Bruno, Andy R.
• Other Authors: Steinberg, Mark D., Koenker, Diane P., Randolph, John W., Gille, Zsuzsa
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Soviet Union; Russia; Environment; Kola Peninsula; Modernization; Arctic; Khibiny; Murmansk; kola peninsula
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/26073

How should we understand the economic relationship of the Soviet Union to the natural environment? This dissertation explores this broad question through a fine-grained study of the environmental history of one particular Russian region in the far north throughout the entire twentieth century. It em...