The article examines the outbreak of infectious hepatitis and typhoid fever in 1964 in the city
of Tselinograd. During the development of virgin and fallow lands a large number of people …

The paper notes that after the formation of the Virgin Lands area in December 1960, the
local health authorities faced a pressing issue of solving the problems of tuberculosis spread …

The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the
poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century. Through the centuries, the march of …

Aeolian dust is closely related to land degradation, desertification, and sand and dust storm
weather, and is a significant factor influencing the Earth's biogeochemical cycles. Here we …

En dépit de son importance clef pour les écosystèmes et les sociétés, le sol demeure
largement compris comme un socle inerte, un arrière-plan pour l'existence biologique et …

This volume examines the experience of Kazakhstan's transition over the past 30 years,
explaining the political and economic performance of the country since the collapse of the …

By articulating the roles played by various actors, such as fisheries scientists, fish harvesting
and processing enterprises and Soviet consumers, this paper uses fisheries as a case study …

Expertise And The Quest For Rural Modernization In The Russian Empire And The Soviet
Union Navigation – Plan du site Cahiers du monde russe Cahiers du monde russe Russie …

A surprising degree of continuity between engineering programs exists in the former Soviet
Union from the late Stalin period to the present. While engineering organisations and …

This chapter aims to extend the scope of the environmental history of Central Asia by turning
attention to relations between non-human and human actors. The main focus is on the saiga …