This in-depth exploration of five industries in the Kola Peninsula examines Soviet power and its interaction with the natural world.

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The collapse of the Soviet Union famously opened new venues for the theories of nationalism and the study of processes and actors involved in these new nation-b

With a new afterword by the authorA study of the early and turbulent years of the Soviet conservation movement. Focusing on the period from the October Revoluti

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