A Blue-Green Oasis in the Heart of the Kazakh Steppe: The Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve
Arcadia, Spring 2022, no. 2
Soviet Union
Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History
Excerpt from the anthology Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History.
Paesaggi da decifrare: fiumi e dighe dell’Asia centrale
Flora J. Roberts descrive il proprio viaggio accademico e reale nella storia ambientale del fiume Syr Darya nella Valle di Fergana e le conseguenze socio-ecologiche della costruzione di una diga.
Places in Translation: Of Rivers and Dams in Central Asia
Flora J. Roberts discusses the environmental history of the Syr Darya river in the Ferghana Valley and the consequences arising from the damming of the river.
Layers of Meaning and Layers of Time in a Former Russian Peat Mining Region
Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 36
Ice and Snow in the Cold War: Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments
Through histories of extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography.
"Interspecies Affection and Military Aims: Was There a Totalitarian Dog?"
Xenia Cherkaev and Elena Tipikina examine the institutions of the Stalinist state that planned the distribution, raising, and breeding of family dogs for military service. The investigate how the program affected human-dog relations.
Leonid's Story
This animated film tells the story of a family which lived in the village next to the Chernobyl reactor, and whose lives were destroyed during the 1986 disaster.
Foundation of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Nature
The All-Russian Society for the Protection of Nature (VOOP) becomes the first major Russian environmental organization.
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