Burning Swamps - Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia''s Fossil Economy

This groundbreaking environmental history approaches Russia's fossil economy from its margins. Tracing the forgotten role of peat in industry and power generation, Katja Bruisch makes a compelling case for foregrounding overlooked places, people, and resources as we tell the histories of the planetary emergency.

List of contents

Introduction, Part I. Promising Environments: Material Premises of Growth and Power: 1. Appropriation; 2. Mobilization; Part II. Working Environments: Extraction and the Making of Place: 3. Exploitation; 4. Transformation; Part III. Unsettling Environments: Threat, Loss, and Precarity in Russia's Peatlands: 5. Irritation; 6. Revaluation; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Katja Bruisch is Ussher Assistant Professor in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin.

Product details

• Authors: Katja Bruisch, Katja (Trinity College Dublin) Bruisch
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2025
• EAN: 9781009603089
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0960308-9
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Studies in Environment and History
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; NATURE / General, Russia, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Environmental Economics, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Energy resources, Historical Geography