Robert Argenbright
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1087545 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert Argenbright |
| NOMBRES | Robert |
| APELLIDO | Argenbright |
| FIRMA | ARGENBRIGHT R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Utah |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Voices from the Soviet Edge
Der Müll und die Macht
Russia does not have a modern, efficient waste policy. There is no attempt to avoid waste, and just five percent of household waste is recycled. No high-capacity recycling system has been put in place, and there is a lack of awareness of the issue among the general public. At the same time, an increasing number of citizens are protesting against waste disposal sites. The plan by the Moscow city authority to dispose of its waste over 1,100 kilomet…
Directed suburbanization in a changing context
The territories of “New Moscow,” were annexed 1 July 2012, a move that more than doubled the size of the Russian capital. The federal and city governments were supposed to move to New Moscow, which was meant to be in the avant-garde of twenty-first century urban design. However, soon New Moscow’s role was reduced to helping to make Greater Moscow more “livable” and channeling growth to the southwest. The present study sketches the historical back…
The evolution of New Moscow
This article provides an overview of New Moscow’s trajectory from its unveiling as a leap into a new epoch to its more modest current role. Possible reasons for undertaking the project are examined, with special focus on the one consistent justification: to make the capital more polycentric. Against the backdrop of global polycentric urban region formation, the question of Moscow’s polycentricity is explored at three different scales: intraurban,…
Russia in Motion
Russia in Motion offers fresh approaches to the mobility history of Russia in its last three incarnations. The volume aims to move beyond the relatively constricted foci of mainstream history of tr
Moscow on the Rise
In this article I examine Moscow's role in the political‐economic space of the Russian Federation. A broad range of data supports the thesis that the capital has become a primate city, one that serves no longer as the command center of a closed system but as the primary node of interconnection between Russia and the rest of the world. The effort to create a larger, polycentric "New Moscow" next to the ancient capital is marked by a tightening of …
New Moscow
An American geographer specializing in Russia examines the unprecedented plan announced in mid-2011 by the country's President Dmitriy Medvedev to expand the territory of Moscow and move government offices to newly annexed areas. The plan aims to increase the land area of the capital by 155 percent, mainly by annexation of a vast tract southwest of the city. The author demonstrates that while "New Moscow" is envisioned as a multi-polar and low-de…
Engineer of Revolutionary Russia
Anthony Heywood, Engineer of Revolutionary Russia: Iurii V. Lomonosov (1876–1952) and the Railways , Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. Pp XXX + 400; illustrations; notes; index; maps. £75.00 (hardback). IS
Vanguard of ‘socialist colonization’? The Krasnyi Vostok expedition of 1920
During the Russian Civil War, special vehicles visited the vast country's diverse regions as emissaries of central authority. The so-called ‘agitational’ vehicles carried out the functions of propaganda and agitation, ‘instruction’ (governance) and surveillance in the pursuit of two overarching, and sometimes contradictory, goals: state building and the radical transformation of society. The Krasnyi Vostok (Red East) expedition to Turkestan in 19…
Avtomobilshchina
Despite a major road construction program, the pace of traffic circulation in Moscow has slowed to less than half the average speed recorded for 1991. One problem is the rapid growth in the number of vehicles, but even more important, as shown in this study, are the cultural and political dimensions of driving and automobile ownership, or automobility. Currently, some specifically Russian driving practices exacerbate the situation. Yet there are …
Lethal Mobilities
Environmental Pollution in Moscow
This paper summarizes the environmental legacy of the Soviet period in Moscow, analyzes current trends, and surveys future prospects for environmental quality based on detailed understanding of the city's geography. Two maps generated by ongoing, street-level research—one delineating actual areas of impact based on degree and type of pollution, the other categorizing administrative districts in terms of environmental damage—are presented. Additio…
Marking NEP's Slippery Path
Comrades are raising an uproar—you are strangling the economic managers. Every time that a manager is dealt with, we experience huge difficulties. We were not able to arrest Krasnoshchekov right away, and many comrades doubted that it was possible to arrest him. ... I think that we will completely lose the respect of the broad working masses if we do not act in such instances. We sometimes fear to compromise a rabotnik and put him on trial, when …
Remaking Moscow
The erratic course of the "transition" in Russia today undermines hope for the establishment of a genuine democracy supported by institutions of civil society. The West must accept that the outcome of the transition is unknown. Whether public space is emerging where the practices of civil society have been able to take root is not clear at the moment. However, important transitions in daily life and everyday places are occurring, especially as a …
Honour among communists
Trotskii's train was a unique institution in the Russian civil war. Archival documents reveal much about the internal organisation of the train and the behaviour of its personnel. An overview of crimes and infractions committed by train personnel leads to insights concerning the moral order of this exemplary Bolshevik institution. The practical limitations of the Utopian values of Trotsky and his followers became clear with the transition to NEP
The Soviet agitational vehicle
Bolsheviks, Baggers and Railroaders
Students of the Russian Civil War have long considered the railroad system crucial to the survival of the Communist regime.1 Some scholars also recognized early on that food supply was a critical question in the history of Soviet Russia.2 Recent studies have shed more light on both topics, but this paper combines the two in a study of the Communist state's attempt to monopolize the transport of food, especially grain, on the railroads.3 In additi…
Red Tsaritsyn
Remaking Moscow
The erratic course of the "transition" in Russia today undermines hope for the establishment of a genuine democracy supported by institutions of civil society. The West must accept that the outcome of the transition is unknown. Whether public space is emerging where the practices of civil society have been able to take root is not clear at the moment. However, important transitions in daily life and everyday places are occurring, especially as a …
Avtomobilshchina
Despite a major road construction program, the pace of traffic circulation in Moscow has slowed to less than half the average speed recorded for 1991. One problem is the rapid growth in the number of vehicles, but even more important, as shown in this study, are the cultural and political dimensions of driving and automobile ownership, or automobility. Currently, some specifically Russian driving practices exacerbate the situation. Yet there are …
Moscow on the Rise
In this article I examine Moscow's role in the political‐economic space of the Russian Federation. A broad range of data supports the thesis that the capital has become a primate city, one that serves no longer as the command center of a closed system but as the primary node of interconnection between Russia and the rest of the world. The effort to create a larger, polycentric "New Moscow" next to the ancient capital is marked by a tightening of …
Red Tsaritsyn
New Moscow
An American geographer specializing in Russia examines the unprecedented plan announced in mid-2011 by the country's President Dmitriy Medvedev to expand the territory of Moscow and move government offices to newly annexed areas. The plan aims to increase the land area of the capital by 155 percent, mainly by annexation of a vast tract southwest of the city. The author demonstrates that while "New Moscow" is envisioned as a multi-polar and low-de…
The evolution of New Moscow
This article provides an overview of New Moscow’s trajectory from its unveiling as a leap into a new epoch to its more modest current role. Possible reasons for undertaking the project are examined, with special focus on the one consistent justification: to make the capital more polycentric. Against the backdrop of global polycentric urban region formation, the question of Moscow’s polycentricity is explored at three different scales: intraurban,…
Marking NEP's Slippery Path
Comrades are raising an uproar—you are strangling the economic managers. Every time that a manager is dealt with, we experience huge difficulties. We were not able to arrest Krasnoshchekov right away, and many comrades doubted that it was possible to arrest him. ... I think that we will completely lose the respect of the broad working masses if we do not act in such instances. We sometimes fear to compromise a rabotnik and put him on trial, when …
The Soviet agitational vehicle
Directed suburbanization in a changing context
The territories of “New Moscow,” were annexed 1 July 2012, a move that more than doubled the size of the Russian capital. The federal and city governments were supposed to move to New Moscow, which was meant to be in the avant-garde of twenty-first century urban design. However, soon New Moscow’s role was reduced to helping to make Greater Moscow more “livable” and channeling growth to the southwest. The present study sketches the historical back…
Environmental Pollution in Moscow
This paper summarizes the environmental legacy of the Soviet period in Moscow, analyzes current trends, and surveys future prospects for environmental quality based on detailed understanding of the city's geography. Two maps generated by ongoing, street-level research—one delineating actual areas of impact based on degree and type of pollution, the other categorizing administrative districts in terms of environmental damage—are presented. Additio…
Bolsheviks, Baggers and Railroaders
Students of the Russian Civil War have long considered the railroad system crucial to the survival of the Communist regime.1 Some scholars also recognized early on that food supply was a critical question in the history of Soviet Russia.2 Recent studies have shed more light on both topics, but this paper combines the two in a study of the Communist state's attempt to monopolize the transport of food, especially grain, on the railroads.3 In additi…
Red Tsaritsyn
Bolsheviks, Baggers and Railroaders
Students of the Russian Civil War have long considered the railroad system crucial to the survival of the Communist regime.1 Some scholars also recognized early on that food supply was a critical question in the history of Soviet Russia.2 Recent studies have shed more light on both topics, but this paper combines the two in a study of the Communist state's attempt to monopolize the transport of food, especially grain, on the railroads.3 In additi…
Honour among communists
Trotskii's train was a unique institution in the Russian civil war. Archival documents reveal much about the internal organisation of the train and the behaviour of its personnel. An overview of crimes and infractions committed by train personnel leads to insights concerning the moral order of this exemplary Bolshevik institution. The practical limitations of the Utopian values of Trotsky and his followers became clear with the transition to NEP
The Soviet agitational vehicle
Remaking Moscow
The erratic course of the "transition" in Russia today undermines hope for the establishment of a genuine democracy supported by institutions of civil society. The West must accept that the outcome of the transition is unknown. Whether public space is emerging where the practices of civil society have been able to take root is not clear at the moment. However, important transitions in daily life and everyday places are occurring, especially as a …
Environmental Pollution in Moscow
This paper summarizes the environmental legacy of the Soviet period in Moscow, analyzes current trends, and surveys future prospects for environmental quality based on detailed understanding of the city's geography. Two maps generated by ongoing, street-level research—one delineating actual areas of impact based on degree and type of pollution, the other categorizing administrative districts in terms of environmental damage—are presented. Additio…
Marking NEP's Slippery Path
Comrades are raising an uproar—you are strangling the economic managers. Every time that a manager is dealt with, we experience huge difficulties. We were not able to arrest Krasnoshchekov right away, and many comrades doubted that it was possible to arrest him. ... I think that we will completely lose the respect of the broad working masses if we do not act in such instances. We sometimes fear to compromise a rabotnik and put him on trial, when …
Avtomobilshchina
Despite a major road construction program, the pace of traffic circulation in Moscow has slowed to less than half the average speed recorded for 1991. One problem is the rapid growth in the number of vehicles, but even more important, as shown in this study, are the cultural and political dimensions of driving and automobile ownership, or automobility. Currently, some specifically Russian driving practices exacerbate the situation. Yet there are …
Lethal Mobilities
New Moscow
An American geographer specializing in Russia examines the unprecedented plan announced in mid-2011 by the country's President Dmitriy Medvedev to expand the territory of Moscow and move government offices to newly annexed areas. The plan aims to increase the land area of the capital by 155 percent, mainly by annexation of a vast tract southwest of the city. The author demonstrates that while "New Moscow" is envisioned as a multi-polar and low-de…
Engineer of Revolutionary Russia
Anthony Heywood, Engineer of Revolutionary Russia: Iurii V. Lomonosov (1876–1952) and the Railways , Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. Pp XXX + 400; illustrations; notes; index; maps. £75.00 (hardback). IS
Vanguard of ‘socialist colonization’? The Krasnyi Vostok expedition of 1920
During the Russian Civil War, special vehicles visited the vast country's diverse regions as emissaries of central authority. The so-called ‘agitational’ vehicles carried out the functions of propaganda and agitation, ‘instruction’ (governance) and surveillance in the pursuit of two overarching, and sometimes contradictory, goals: state building and the radical transformation of society. The Krasnyi Vostok (Red East) expedition to Turkestan in 19…
Moscow on the Rise
In this article I examine Moscow's role in the political‐economic space of the Russian Federation. A broad range of data supports the thesis that the capital has become a primate city, one that serves no longer as the command center of a closed system but as the primary node of interconnection between Russia and the rest of the world. The effort to create a larger, polycentric "New Moscow" next to the ancient capital is marked by a tightening of …
Russia in Motion
Russia in Motion offers fresh approaches to the mobility history of Russia in its last three incarnations. The volume aims to move beyond the relatively constricted foci of mainstream history of tr
The evolution of New Moscow
This article provides an overview of New Moscow’s trajectory from its unveiling as a leap into a new epoch to its more modest current role. Possible reasons for undertaking the project are examined, with special focus on the one consistent justification: to make the capital more polycentric. Against the backdrop of global polycentric urban region formation, the question of Moscow’s polycentricity is explored at three different scales: intraurban,…
Directed suburbanization in a changing context
The territories of “New Moscow,” were annexed 1 July 2012, a move that more than doubled the size of the Russian capital. The federal and city governments were supposed to move to New Moscow, which was meant to be in the avant-garde of twenty-first century urban design. However, soon New Moscow’s role was reduced to helping to make Greater Moscow more “livable” and channeling growth to the southwest. The present study sketches the historical back…
Der Müll und die Macht
Russia does not have a modern, efficient waste policy. There is no attempt to avoid waste, and just five percent of household waste is recycled. No high-capacity recycling system has been put in place, and there is a lack of awareness of the issue among the general public. At the same time, an increasing number of citizens are protesting against waste disposal sites. The plan by the Moscow city authority to dispose of its waste over 1,100 kilomet…
Voices from the Soviet Edge
Political science (16 obras) · Geography (10 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Politics (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Soviet and Russian History (7 obras) · Urbanization and City Planning (7 obras) · Economic geography (6 obras) · Political economy (6 obras)