Ice and Snow in the Cold War

Julia Herzberg is Professor for the Cultural History of Eastern Europe at the University of Leipzig and Deputy Director of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO).

• List of IllustrationsINTRODUCTIONSExploring Ice and Snow in the Cold WarJulia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska TormaCryo-history: Ice, Snow, and the Great AccelerationSverker SörlinPART I: SCIENCE: SITES OF KNOWLEDGEChapter 1. Snow and Avalanche Research as Patriotic Duty? The Institutionalization of a Scientific Discipline in SwitzerlandDania AchermannChapter 2. “An Orgy of Hypothesizing”: The Construction of Glaciological Knowledge in Cold War AmericaJanet Martin-NielsenChapter 3. “Camp Century” and “Project Iceworm”: Greenland as a Stage for US Military Service RivalriesIngo HeidbrinkChapter 4. Inuit Responses to Arctic Militarization: Examples from East GreenlandSophie ElixhauserPART II: POLITICS OF CONFRONTATION AND COOPERATIONChapter 5. Creating Open Territorial Rights in Cold and Icy Places: Cold War Rivalries and the Antarctic and Outer Space TreatiesRoger D. LauniusChapter 6. An Environment Too Extreme? The Case of BouvetøyaPeder Roberts and Lize-Marié van der WattChapter 7. Managing the “White Death” in Cold War Soviet Union: Snow Avalanches, Ice Science, and Winter Sports in Kazakhstan, 1960s–1980sMarc EliePART III: CULTURES AND NARRATIVES OF ICE AND SNOWChapter 8. Laboratory Metaphors in Antarctic History: From Nature to SpaceSebastian Vincent GrevsmühlChapter 9. Cold War Creatures: Soviet Science and the Problem of the Abominable SnowmanCarolin F. Roeder and Gregory AfinogenovChapter 10. Negotiating “Coldness”: The Natural Environment and Community Cohesion in Cold War Molotovsk-SeverodvinskEkaterina Emeliantseva KollerChapter 11. An Exploration of the Self: Reinhold Messner’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1989Pascal SchillingsConclusion: Histories of Extreme Environments beyond the Cold WarJulia Herzberg, Christian Kehrt, and Franziska TormaIndex

“These histories of cold places provide valuable contributions to environmental history, the history of science, and Cold War history. For scholars of Russia and the Soviet Union, it is worth pointing out that the three chapters concentrating on this region are especially rich and insightful.” • Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas“The advantage of the volume is that it transcends the geographical boundaries of the circumpolar areas, which are often associated with cold and extreme. As can be seen from the description, apart from Antarctica, Greenland and the Soviet Arctic, the geography of the collection covers the European Alps and mountain systems of Central Asia. The extended geographic focus allows to see the links between polar and non-polar regions in the history of science and technology and, therefore, to ‘detach’ extreme cold environment from the poles.” • Karaseva“A strong feature of this collection is its detailed research, which serves as the basis for the narratives: several chapters use a microhistorical (as well as a microgeographical) approach and tell us about largely unknown places… Hopefully, this innovative book will invigorate other researchers, including those who study Russian and east European history to further develop a genre of “cryo-history”that is so relevant in today’s world of accelerated Arctic melting.” • Slavic Review“The focus of this very well written volumes, which in parts reads like single-authored, is in most contributions on the systemic competition, be it in the military, winter sports, technology or especially in research.” • H-Soz-Kult“Collectively, the geographically diverse case studies in Ice and Snow in the Cold War address a topic that is important but relatively understudied. The book moves both environmental history and Cold War studies in intriguing new directions.” • Matthew Farish, University of Toronto