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Conquest of the Russian Arctic
Spanning nine time zones from Norway to the Bering Strait, the immense Russian Arctic was mostly unexplored before the twentieth century. This changed rapidly in the 1920s, when …
Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?
After visiting Russia in 1921, the journalist Lincoln Steffens famously declared, "e;I have seen the future, and it works."e; Steffens referred to the social experiment of …
Resources under Regimes
Democratic or authoritarian, every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage its wildlife and natural resources. In this provocative, comparative study, Paul R. …
Hero Projects
From Lenin and Stalin to Putin, Russia's economic development has relied on large scale technologies. These technologies--often called "e;hero projects,"e; "e;projects …
Lenin's Laureate
The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist and an exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet science from Stalin through Gorbachev.In 2000, Russian scientist Zhores …
Conquest of the Russian Arctic
Spanning nine time zones, the Russian Arctic was mostly unexplored before the twentieth century. Paul Josephson describes the massive effort under Stalin to assimilate the Arctic …
Motorized Obsessions
2008 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineFrom dirt bikes and jet skis to weed wackers and snowblowers, machines powered by small gas engines have become a permanent-and …