The Russian Cold

Julia Herzberg is Professor of the History of East Central Europe and Russia in the Pre-Modern Period at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and at the University of Regensburg.

Part I: Foundations



Introduction: The Russian Cold

Julia Herzberg, Andreas Renner, Ingrid Schierle



Chapter 1. Climate Ideas and the Cold in Russia

Julia Herzberg



Part II: Science and Politics



Chapter 2. The Nature of Cold: Russia’s Climate and the Academy of Sciences in the Eighteenth Century

Julia Herzberg



Chapter 3. The Russian South Pole Expedition in the Context of Political Interests of the Soviet Union during the Cold War era

Erki Tammiksaar



Chapter 4. The Subarctic: A Classic Soviet Study of the Tundra

Denis J. B. Shaw



Part III: Images and Narratives



Chapter 5. From a “Country of Cold and Gloom” to a “Welcoming Land”: Climate and the Image of Siberia in the Russian Periodical Press, 1860s to the Early 1900s

Nataliia Rodigina



Chapter 6. Local Warming: Cold, Ice and Snow in Russian and Soviet Cinema

Oksana Bulgakowa



Chapter 7. The Aesthetics of Cold: Narrating National Trauma in Film

Roman Mauer



Part IV: Pain and Pleasure



Chapter 8. The Wehrmacht and the Russian Winter: The Impact of Climate at the Front and in Soviet Captivity

Aleksandr Kuzminykh



Chapter 9. Winter Tourism and Skiing in the Soviet Union: School of Courage, Source of Health, National Pastime

Aleksei Popov



Chapter 10. Heroes of the Ice: The Polar Explorer and the Hockey Player as Two Masculine Identity Scripts of the Soviet Era

Alexander Ananyev



Conclusion

Julia Herzberg, Andreas Renner, Ingrid Schierle