عنوان

The Afterlives of Soviet Secret Cities: Environment and Political Economy in Kazakhstan's Defense Industry Sites After 1991

شماره

TL54517

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Afterlives of Soviet Secret Cities: Environment and Political Economy in Kazakhstan's Defense Industry Sites After 1991

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Kopack, Robert Allen

نام ساير پديدآوران

Lewis, Robert

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Toronto (Canada)

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2020

متن يادداشت

247 p.

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Toronto (Canada)

امتياز متن

2020

متن يادداشت

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union built a number of military industries and secret defense sites in the vast Kazakh steppes. These included the world's first space complex, large nuclear and biological weapons production and test sites, and massive ballistic missile research areas. These sites and their adjacent bedroom communities have experienced enormous stress resulting from large-scale political economic transformations due to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Environmental destruction is a common and troubling legacy from the past for all of these sites. In this dissertation, I examine the political, economic, and environmental afterlives of Soviet governance and Cold War defense investments in Kazakhstan through a study of three formerly secret military installations: Baikonur, Priozersk/Sary Shagan, and Stepnogorsk. My research shows how the destabilizing political economic rupture of the early 1990s was driven by both new market-based opportunities, such as commercial space endeavors, mining, heavy industry, tourism, and renewed forms of closure and secrecy in order support them. In what follows, I explore how these military assets, their industrial landscapes and their dependent communities have been reorganized and drawn into new business ventures across national and global economic networks, how the Russian Federation has played a partial role in governance at the national and local scale, and how the politics of environmental degradation has shaped the course of development.

اصطلاح موضوعی

Economics

اصطلاح موضوعی

Environmental justice

اصطلاح موضوعی

Geography

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Kopack, Robert Allen

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Lewis, Robert

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Toronto (Canada)

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y