Frozen State

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Experiencing Cold in Russian History and Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvAlison K. Smith,Tricia Starks,Matthew P. Romaniello,Alison K Smith,Matthew P Romaniello

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Cold runs through Russian history and culture as an enemy, an opportunity, an adventure, and a metaphor. Drawing on the expertise of a broad range of scholars, this volume offers new insights into Russia’s sensational history.Early modern European travelers and thinkers found Russia’s cold bewildering as something to experience and something to explain. In the nineteenth century, Russians began to reclaim the symbolism of cold, transforming it from a mark of backwardness or conservatism into a source of national pride and aesthetic beauty. It was also still feared, and cold’s potential as a punishment or hardship remained through the transition into the twentieth century. Throughout, cold was also something to be mastered and exploited through Arctic expeditions and tourism, industrial development, and the conquest of natural resources in the far north.This volume brings together a collection of essays written by historians, art historians, and literary scholars. It integrates visual sources to enliven the historical narrative and engage readers more deeply with the Russian past. Spanning the from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, the essays offer broad chronological and thematic coverage of the significance of the cold in Russian history and culture, appealing to readers across disciplines and interests.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-12
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt1 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor368
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487567644

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration and SpellingA Frozen State: Physical, Psychological, and Cultural Resonances of Russian ColdAlison K. Smith, Tricia Starks, and Matthew P. Romaniello1. Was Russia Cold? Experiencing Russia’s Climate in the Early Modern EraMatthew P. Romaniello2. No Way through the Ice: The First Russian Expeditions to Find a Northeastern Passage in the Eighteenth CenturyKristina Küntzel-Witt3. The Mysteries of Fatherland Geography: Siberia, Cold and Warm, in the Novels of Ivan KalashnikovMark A. Soderstrom4. The Cold Empire in the Rainforest: Russians’ Survival in Lingít AaníMichael Kraemer5. Nature’s Ice House: Frozen Mammoths and Siberian ColdRebecca J.H. Woods6. Between Shivering and the Sublime: The Visuality of Cold in Late Imperial Russian Landscape PaintingLouise A. Hardiman7. The Other Joy of the Russe: Ledianye Gory (Ice Hills) In Tsarist RussiaAlison K. Smith 8. “The cold and snow reign”: Cold and Punishment in Late Imperial RussiaSarah Badcock9. Karelian Nature, Emotional Belonging, and the Missing Myth of the NorthTamara Polyakova10. Golod i kholod: Hunger and Cold in Late Imperial and Early Soviet RussiaRebecca Manley11. Cold and Time in Yuri Rytkheu’s A Dream of Polar Fog: An Ecosemiotic ApproachKatherine Bowers12. From the Epiphany Ceremony to a New Russian MasculinityTricia Starks13. Cold Ruins: Longing for the Soviet Sublime in an Arctic Circle Ghost TownMarisa Karyl FranzList of ContributorsIndex

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