Soviet Climate Change Science: Domestic Debates, International Collaboration and Future Climates

Soviet Climate Change Science explores the character and range of Soviet contributions to the emerging understanding of large-scale anthropogenic climate change during the post-1945 period.

Jonathan D. Oldfield is Professor in Russian environmental studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. His current research explores Soviet and Russian understandings of climate science, geoengineering, and society-nature interactions.

Vladimir Jankovic is Reader in History of Science and Atmospheric Humanities at the University of Manchester, with his main area of research focused on the cultures of weather and climate since the 1700s. He is Chair of the History Group of the Royal Meteorological Society. He has previously published Reading the Skies (2001) and Confronting the Climate (2011) and is currently writing on the bilateral approach to climate research during the Cold War.

Katja Doose is Junior Professor, Department of History, at Lumière University Lyon 2. She works on the environmental history of the 19th and 20th centuries and history of the earth sciences.

Nina Kruglikova was a postdoctoral researcher on the ’Soviet climate science and its intellectual legacies’ project at the University of Birmingham and an Honorary Research Associate in Oxford University’s School of Geography and the Environment. She is currently a Research Associate at the University of Manchester.

Denis J.B. Shaw was an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK, where he had formerly been Reader in Russian Geography. His most recent book, published posthumously, was titled Reconnoitring Russia Mapping: exploring and describing early modern Russia, 1613-1825 (2024).

Julia Lajus is a Researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. In 2023 she was a Visiting Associate Professor at Columbia University in the City of New York where she taught the history of the Arctic and the history of climate science. She publishes on the history of marine and polar environments and sciences.