Peoples, cultures and practices of the Russian North

Question 1

What decolonisation means for Russian Indigenous peoples.

Answer 1

Sulyandizga & Berezkhov (2023)

Question 2

Place and nature: essays in environmental history

Introduction.
* Local envt and individual specificities are crucial to understanding historical Russian human-envt nexus
* European north of Russia is considered to stretch from the Scandinavian border to the Northern Urals
* Images of nature and ecology cannot be separated from their political background e.g. frozen frontier to symbolic military arena of military strength
* Ecology was also a driving force for expansion and colonisation

Answer 2

Moon et al (2021)

Question 3

The nature and environment of Solovki

Answer 3

Kraikovski & Lajus (2021)

Question 4

Arctic mirrors: Russia and the small peoples of the North

Answer 4

Slezkine (1994)

Question 5

The nature of Soviet power: an Arctic environmental history

Answer 5

Bruno (2017)