The Russian cold : histories of ice, frost, and snow /: histories of ice, frost, and snow. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Julia Herzberg, Andreas Renner, Ingrid Schierle.
• Editors: Herzberg, Julia; Renner, Andreas; Schierle, Ingrid
• Contents: Part I: Foundations Introduction: The Russian Cold; Julia Herzberg, Andreas Renner, Ingrid Schierle Chapter 1. Climate Ideas and the Cold in Russia; Julia Herzberg Part II: Science and Politics Chapter 2. The Nature of Cold: Russia’s Climate and the Academy of Sciences in the Eighteenth Century; Julia Herzberg Chapter 3. The Russian South Pole Expedition in the Context of Political Interests of the Soviet Union during the Cold War era; Erki Tammiksaar Chapter 4. The Subarctic: A Classic Soviet Study of the Tundra; Denis J. B. Shaw 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; Nataliia Rodigina Chapter 6. Local Warming: Cold, Ice and Snow in Russian and Soviet Cinema; Oksana Bulgakowa Chapter 7. The Aesthetics of Cold: Narrating National Trauma in Film; Roman Mauer Part IV: Pain and Pleasure Chapter 8. The Wehrmacht and the Russian Winter: The Impact of Climate at the Front and in Soviet Captivity; Aleksandr Kuzminykh Chapter 9. Winter Tourism and Skiing in the Soviet Union: School of Courage, Source of Health, National Pastime; Aleksei Popov Chapter 10. Heroes of the Ice: The Polar Explorer and the Hockey Player as Two Masculine Identity Scripts of the Soviet Era; Alexander Ananyev Conclusion ; Julia Herzberg, Andreas Renner, Ingrid Schierle
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 947; Nationalism -- Russia; Nationalism -- Soviet Union; Nationalism -- Russia (Federation); National characteristics, Russian; Russia -- Climate; Soviet Union -- Climate; Russia (Federation) -- Climate
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800731288
• Related ISBNs: 9781800731271
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