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Red Arctic: polar exploration and the myth of the north in the Soviet Union, 1932-1939

McCannon, John, 1967-

Year: 1998.

Publisher: Oxford University Press.

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Frontmatter

A Note on Transliteration

Abbreviations

Introduction

ONE Footholds in the North: The Russians in the Arctic, 1500-1932

TWO The Commissariat of Ice: The Rise of Glavsevmorput, 1932-1936

THREE Days of Glory: The Major Expeditions, 1932-1939

FOUR From Victory to Victory: The Myth of the Arctic in Soviet Culture

FIVE Between Rhetoric and Reality: Manufacturing the Arctic Myth

SIX Polestar Descending: Glavsevmorput In Decline, 1936-1939

CONCLUSION

Epilogue

Parting Thoughts

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

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Title:

Red Arctic : polar exploration and the myth of the north in the Soviet Union, 1932-1939 John McCannon.

Author:

McCannon, John, 1967-

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Red Arctic : polar exploration and the myth of the north in the Soviet Union, 1932-1939 John McCannon.
McCannon, John, 1967-
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Subject Headings:

• Soviet Union. -- Glavnoe upravlenie Severnogo morskogo puti
• Russia, Northern -- History
• Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- Soviet
• Soviet Union -- Territorial expansion
• Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953

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