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The Nature of Soviet Power: An Ecological History of the Arctic

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In the twentieth century, the Soviet Union transformed the Kola Peninsula, once a remote outpost of the Russian Empire, into one of the most populated, industrialized, militarized, and polluted regions of the Arctic. This transformation had a significant impact on the Soviet experience of regional development. Interaction with the natural world, on the one hand, brought industrial advantages, but on the other hand, limited the possibilities for radical socialist transformation, since nature itself was a participant in the communist project. Andy Bruno's book places Soviet environmental history in comparative perspective as part of the global drive of modern states toward endless economic growth. While exploring the history of railroad construction, mining and processing industries, nickel and copper smelting technology, reindeer herding, and energy production in the region, the author also examines Soviet cultural perceptions of nature, development plans, life experiences, and ways of socio-economic adaptation to the reality of the physical world and its changes. The book presents the reader with a history of two interrelated processes: while the Soviets remade nature, nature remade the Soviets. Andy Bruno is a professor in the Department of History at Northern Illinois University, USA.
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