As the seat of the Kazakh government and a booming city since 1998, Astana has attracted
hundreds of thousands of migrants. As a cultural and financial capital, Almaty has also …

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the very rich thinking about environmental
issues which has grown up in Russia since the nineteenth century, a body of knowledge and …

Jonathan Oldfield is Reader in Russian Environmental Studies in the School of Geography,
Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham; Julia Lajus is Associate …

This article follows the personal trajectory of Mikhail Lavrentiev from his early integration into
the European mathematical community to his role in the construction of the Siberian science …

For much of Russia's fractious history, the earth's stability at least could be taken for granted.
The imperial heartland was situated deep on the Eurasian tectonic plate, rarely experiencing …

‪ This article examines the history of Nurek City in Tajikistan, built to accommodate the works
constructing the world's tallest dam starting in 1961. One of many “new cities” constructed in …

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 …

One of the defining characteristics of Soviet nationalities politics consisted in the attempt to
assign Soviet nationalities, including the Russian one, to separate and unequivocally …

This book argues that the Soviet Union was a highly influential actor in furthering
understandings of society-nature interaction on the international stage and played a key role …

Khrushchev's Secret Speech about Stalinist crimes in February evoked heated public
responses in many parts of the USSR. In stark contrast, the momentous changes of 1956 …