Environment, Technology, and Science in the Late USSR

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This panel explores the intersection between various fields of science, from meteorology to glaciology, through a variety of perspectives including cultural, social, and political transformation, modernization, Cold War, and science fiction. The purpose is to probe the relationship between science and the USSR to complicate existing narratives, widen our perspective, and begin to understand the role of science in Russian and post-Soviet policy making and culture today.

Sub Unit

• History: 1945-1990

Chair

• Andy Bruno, Indiana U Bloomington

Papers

• Engineering Food Modernity: Crises and Industrial Food Making in the USSR, 1950s-1980s - Elena Kochetkova, U of Bergen (Norway)

• Cry Me a River: The Life of Almaty near Tian Shan Glaciers in the Late 20th Century - Mariia Koskina, U of Cambridge (UK)

• Forecasting Disaster: Meteorology and Flood Control, 1950-1967 - Alexander Thomas Herbert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Discussant

• Andy Bruno, Indiana U Bloomington