Red Arctic

Polar exploration and soviet political economy -- Arctic as popular culture -- Defining the Arctic -- Footholds in the North: Russians in the Arctic, 1500-1932 -- First steps: opening the North, 1500-1800 -- Arctic in the late imperial period, 1800-1917 -- Building the North: Soviet Arctic, 1917-1932 -- Commissariat of ice: Rise of Glavsevmorput, 1932-1936 -- Growing giant: GUSMP's central apparatus, 1933-1935 -- Science, economic development, and the state -- Periphery: Glavsevmorput in the field -- Days of glory: Major expeditions, 1932-1939 -- Sibiriakov Voyage (1932) -- Cheliuskin Epic (1933-1934) -- Chkalov, Gromov, and Levanevsky: Arctic fFlights (1936-1937) -- "Pole Is Ours!": SP-1 and the North Pole Landing (1937-1938) -- Passing of an era -- From victory to victory: Myth of the Arctic in Soviet culture -- Outlooks toward nature: Arctic as adversary -- Cosmographies: Perceptions of the USSR and the world -- Nation of heroes: Individual and the state -- Living the great dream -- Between Rhetoric and Reality: Manufacturing the Arctic Myth -- Engineering human souls: Arctic myth as state policy -- Crafting the myth: Media and the Arctic -- Consuming the myth: Public responds -- Propaganda: Effects and limitations -- Polestar descending: Glavsevmorput in decline, 1936-1939; Glavsevmorput in drisis -- Glavsevmorput and the great purges -- New primacy in the North: Dalstroi and the demotion of GUSMP.