Conquest of the Russian Arctic

by Paul R. Josephson

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 the Soviet Union implemented plans for its conquest. The Conquest of the Russian Arctic, a definitive political and environmental history of one of the world's remotest regions, details the ambitious attempts, from Soviet times to the present, to control and reshape...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674728904
• ISBN13: 9780674728905
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"