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Red Arctic : polar exploration and the myth of the north in the Soviet Union, 1932-1939 /

A work of refreshing originality and vivid appeal, Red Arctic tells the story of Stalinist Russia's massive campaign to explore and develop its Northern territories during the 1930s. Author John McCannon recounts the dramatic stories of the polar expeditions--conducted by foot, ship, and plane-...

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Основен автор: McCannon, John, 1967- (Author)
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Предмети:
Soviet Union. > Glavnoe upravlenie Severnogo morskogo puti.
Glavnoe upravlenie Severnogo morskogo puti > Soviet Union.
1925-1953
History.
Discovery and exploration, Russian.
Territorial expansion.
Russia (Federation) > History.
Russia, Northern > History.
Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration > Russian.
Soviet Union > Territorial expansion.
Soviet Union > History > 1925-1953.
Russia > History.
Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration.
Arctic regions.
Russia (Federation)
Russia, Northern.
Soviet Union.
Electronic books.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Red Arctic.
Съдържание:
  • Polar exploration and soviet political economy
  • Arctic as popular culture
  • Defining the Arctic
  • Footholds in the North: Russians in the Arctic, 1500-1932
  • First steps: opening the North, 1500-1800
  • Arctic in the late imperial period, 1800-1917
  • Building the North: Soviet Arctic, 1917-1932
  • Commissariat of ice: Rise of Glavsevmorput, 1932-1936
  • Growing giant: GUSMP's central apparatus, 1933-1935
  • Science, economic development, and the state
  • Periphery: Glavsevmorput in the field
  • Days of glory: Major expeditions, 1932-1939
  • Sibiriakov Voyage (1932)
  • Cheliuskin Epic (1933-1934)
  • Chkalov, Gromov, and Levanevsky: Arctic fFlights (1936-1937)
  • "Pole Is Ours!": SP-1 and the North Pole Landing (1937-1938)
  • Passing of an era
  • From victory to victory: Myth of the Arctic in Soviet culture
  • Outlooks toward nature: Arctic as adversary
  • Cosmographies: Perceptions of the USSR and the world
  • Nation of heroes: Individual and the state
  • Living the great dream
  • Between Rhetoric and Reality: Manufacturing the Arctic Myth
  • Engineering human souls: Arctic myth as state policy
  • Crafting the myth: Media and the Arctic
  • Consuming the myth: Public responds
  • Propaganda: Effects and limitations
  • Polestar descending: Glavsevmorput in decline, 1936-1939; Glavsevmorput in drisis
  • Glavsevmorput and the great purges
  • New primacy in the North: Dalstroi and the demotion of GUSMP.

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