Elena Kochetkova
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 832759 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elena Kochetkova |
| NOMBRES | Elena |
| APELLIDO | Kochetkova |
| FIRMA | KOCHETKOVA E |
| AFILIACIONES | National Research University Higher School of Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9722-1157 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Zero Growth, Socialist Modernity, and the Anti-Environmental Turn in Eastern Europe
Introduction. Global fat resources
This article was published open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Food chemistry, fat experiment and palm oil in late Soviet politics and industry
This article discusses the development of food chemistry in the Soviet Union beginning in the late 1950s. It analyses how, amid a growing cult of chemistry, scientists sought to address food crises and envisioned the creation of modern, scientifically engineered food. This study examines the scientific beliefs and experiments as well as their political relevance in response to persistent food shortage. Emphasising the fact that these experiments …
Hero Projects
People’s Control and the Morality Quest of the Late Soviet Economy
“People’s Control” was a centrally controlled institution of economic and social regulation widespread in state socialist countries and, particularly, in the Soviet Union between 1965 and 1991. The ideology underpinning the institution, however, insisted on its vernacular nature and framed its actions in terms of a democratic approach to economic problems. The offices of people’s control proliferated as part of a system that covered the whole cou…
Forestry Chemical Sector and the Challenge of Waste-Free Production in the USSR, 1950s — 1980s
The article examines the development of the forest chemical sector in the USSR during the 1950s — 1980s. The emphasis is placed on the changes that occurred in the industry, as well as on the issue of waste-free production in the forest industry. It is shown how chemistry became one of the main areas of industrial development in the USSR after the Great Patriotic War, including in the field of wood processing. One of the successful projects was t…
The Green Power of Socialism
How the Soviet forestry industry developed a unique form of industrial ecology—a commonsense approach toward natural resources for the economy and society. In The Green Power of Socialism, Elena Kochetkovaexamines the relationship between nature and humans under state socialism by looking at the industrial role of Soviet forests. The book explores evolving Soviet policies of wood consumption, discussing how professionals working in the forestry i…
Being Together, Growing Affluence
The article examines inter-state attempts to enhance industrial development in the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon, or CMEA) between the 1950s and 1980s. It studies how state socialism aimed to build a network of economic and research institutions to transform the bloc into a technological leader during the Cold War. Building upon previously unpublished archival sources, this research focuses on cooperation in chemistry through th…
Abandoned, But Not Forgotten Heritage
This paper examines Russian industrial heritage and its interactions with society. It focuses on changing identities and the transformation of industrial enterprises from connecters to the future in Soviet times, to bridges to both the past and the future for different social groups in post-Soviet Russia. Based on regional examples from the Russian northwest, this article analyzes the trajectories of industrial enterprises from urban centers to p…
Performing Inventiveness
This article examines the phenomenon of Soviet industrial and technical creativity ( promyshlennoe i tekhnicheskoe tvorchestvo ) from the late 1950s to the 1980s. It particularly focuses on the invention and rationalization movement at industrial enterprises through the lens of Soviet industrial policy. It emphasizes creativity as a labor resource and incentive developed into the oversized system and shows its structural elements and encouragemen…
Making Food Modernity
From the mid-1950s, industrial food manufacturing has become a key priority of the Soviet economy. Increasing the production of agricultural and manufactured foodstuffs was a matter of improving living standards, which from 1961 the Soviet leadership declared as a crucial step in achieving the aims of communism. At the same time, since the 1950s and 1960s, the role of science and technology in making food products has significantly increased, pro…
Socialist Construction for Siberia
This article examines the history of socialist collaboration in Comecon through the lens of a large industrial project in Soviet Siberia. It examines the construction of the Ust'-Ilimsk forest industrial complex which was conceived as a collective effort of six socialist European countries. On the one hand, the project formed part of the Soviet Union's strategy of technological colonization of Soviet Eastern lands, and on the other, it aimed to e…
The Power of the Periphery
Reviewed by: The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World by Peder Anker Elena Kochetkova (bio) The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World By Peder Anker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 288. The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World By Peder Anker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 288. Many…
Technological inequalities and motivation of Soviet institutions in the scientific-technological cooperation of Comecon in Europe, 1950s–80s
This article examines Comecon’s scientific-technological cooperation via the lens of the so-called ‘direct contacts’ of Soviet industrial and research institutions and specialists. It emphasizes two particular questions: the place of institutional and technological inequality in the attempt to integrate socialist Europe; and the motivations of Soviet research and industrial institutions. The paper studies from a local perspective the way in which…
Eseh Notepad
Challenging Europe
Since the nineteenth century, access to and the development of natural resources became an important element of national and international politics. Resource security emerged as an issue vital to national security; and resource competition and crises gave rise to international tensions as well as to technological innovation and new modes of transnational cooperation
Milk and Milk Packaging in the Soviet Union
This article examines the nature of Soviet consumption and technological development through the history of milk and milk packaging between the 1950s and 1970s. Based on published and archival materials, the paper focuses on the role that milk played in Soviet nutrition and the role that packaging played in Soviet consumption. The article also examines the modernization of technology for making packaging as well as technology transfer from the We…
The Way to Communism
The article deals with the changes in the work of industrial enterprises and the transport system of the Karelian Isthmus that supplied them after it had been annexed by the USSR in 1944 as a result of the war with Finland. The relocation of the state border raised the question about creation of a new transport infrastructure for the supply of large industrial enterprises located there. For the Soviet leadership, the restoration of production in …
Soviet industrial production and waste dispersal
This article examines the industrial wastes and environmental effects of Soviet technological development through the history of the Karelian Isthmus, a border territory that had previously been Finnish. Focusing primarily on the history of two large enterprises – the Svetogorskii (former Enso) and Sovetskii (former Johannes) pulp and paper making plants, the authors illustrate the polluting nature of the Soviet economy in the 1940s–1980s. We con…
Between water pollution and protection in the Soviet Union, mid-1950s–1960s
Eseh Notepad
Industry and Forests
The article examines the history of using wood and timber waste and annual plants in the Soviet Union from the 1950s to the1960s. In the middle of the twentieth century, Soviet leadership, producers and scientists expressed their anxiety about the lack of forests near pulp and paper plants, and started looking for alternative raw materials. Modernisation during the same period witnessed a number of initiatives to use different sources for pulp pr…
A Shop Window Where You Can Choose the Goods You Like’
This article examines the Finnish industrial and trade fairs held in the Soviet Union in the context of Finnish–Soviet trade and scientific–technical cooperation in the 1950s and 1960s. While primarily focused on fairs, it also discusses different activities that accompanied them, such as lectures, visits, and negotiations between Finnish traders and Soviet officials and specialists. This study illustrates how such first-hand contact played an im…
Seeing the Forest and the Trees
This article examines the transfer of technology from Finnish enterprises to Soviet industry during the USSR's period of technological modernization between 1955 and 1964. It centers on the forestry sector, which was a particular focus of modernization programs and a key area for the transfer of foreign techniques and expertise. The aim of the article is to investigate the role of trips made by Soviet specialists to foreign (primarily Finnish) en…
Technological Style and Ecology in the USSR in the 1940s and 1950s
This article examines the technological style and interplay between technological development and ecology in the USSR in the first post–World War II decade. The study covers practices of work at the enterprises that produced significant industrial pollution in the Soviet Union. In so doing, the article is focused on the history of several pulp- and paper-making enterprises on the Karelian Isthmus, a territory that was annexed by the Soviet Union …
Industry and Forests
The article examines the history of using wood and timber waste and annual plants in the Soviet Union from the 1950s to the1960s. In the middle of the twentieth century, Soviet leadership, producers and scientists expressed their anxiety about the lack of forests near pulp and paper plants, and started looking for alternative raw materials. Modernisation during the same period witnessed a number of initiatives to use different sources for pulp pr…
Being Together, Growing Affluence
The article examines inter-state attempts to enhance industrial development in the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon, or CMEA) between the 1950s and 1980s. It studies how state socialism aimed to build a network of economic and research institutions to transform the bloc into a technological leader during the Cold War. Building upon previously unpublished archival sources, this research focuses on cooperation in chemistry through th…
Performing Inventiveness
This article examines the phenomenon of Soviet industrial and technical creativity ( promyshlennoe i tekhnicheskoe tvorchestvo ) from the late 1950s to the 1980s. It particularly focuses on the invention and rationalization movement at industrial enterprises through the lens of Soviet industrial policy. It emphasizes creativity as a labor resource and incentive developed into the oversized system and shows its structural elements and encouragemen…
Socialist Construction for Siberia
This article examines the history of socialist collaboration in Comecon through the lens of a large industrial project in Soviet Siberia. It examines the construction of the Ust'-Ilimsk forest industrial complex which was conceived as a collective effort of six socialist European countries. On the one hand, the project formed part of the Soviet Union's strategy of technological colonization of Soviet Eastern lands, and on the other, it aimed to e…
Soviet industrial production and waste dispersal
This article examines the industrial wastes and environmental effects of Soviet technological development through the history of the Karelian Isthmus, a border territory that had previously been Finnish. Focusing primarily on the history of two large enterprises – the Svetogorskii (former Enso) and Sovetskii (former Johannes) pulp and paper making plants, the authors illustrate the polluting nature of the Soviet economy in the 1940s–1980s. We con…
Between water pollution and protection in the Soviet Union, mid-1950s–1960s
A history of failed innovation
In the years before and after the Second World War, chemical and related industries in a variety of countries experienced a surge in innovation and development. As a result, the pulp industry became a space for considerable innovation. In Sweden, Johan Richter developed the Kamyr digester, a pulp cooker that could run continuously and was adopted by industry within a decade. Prior to Richter, Soviet engineer Leonid Zherebov designed a similar coo…
Seeing the Forest and the Trees
This article examines the transfer of technology from Finnish enterprises to Soviet industry during the USSR's period of technological modernization between 1955 and 1964. It centers on the forestry sector, which was a particular focus of modernization programs and a key area for the transfer of foreign techniques and expertise. The aim of the article is to investigate the role of trips made by Soviet specialists to foreign (primarily Finnish) en…
Between water pollution and protection in the Soviet Union, mid-1950s–1960s
Eseh Notepad
Industry and Forests
The article examines the history of using wood and timber waste and annual plants in the Soviet Union from the 1950s to the1960s. In the middle of the twentieth century, Soviet leadership, producers and scientists expressed their anxiety about the lack of forests near pulp and paper plants, and started looking for alternative raw materials. Modernisation during the same period witnessed a number of initiatives to use different sources for pulp pr…
A Shop Window Where You Can Choose the Goods You Like’
This article examines the Finnish industrial and trade fairs held in the Soviet Union in the context of Finnish–Soviet trade and scientific–technical cooperation in the 1950s and 1960s. While primarily focused on fairs, it also discusses different activities that accompanied them, such as lectures, visits, and negotiations between Finnish traders and Soviet officials and specialists. This study illustrates how such first-hand contact played an im…
Milk and Milk Packaging in the Soviet Union
This article examines the nature of Soviet consumption and technological development through the history of milk and milk packaging between the 1950s and 1970s. Based on published and archival materials, the paper focuses on the role that milk played in Soviet nutrition and the role that packaging played in Soviet consumption. The article also examines the modernization of technology for making packaging as well as technology transfer from the We…
The Way to Communism
The article deals with the changes in the work of industrial enterprises and the transport system of the Karelian Isthmus that supplied them after it had been annexed by the USSR in 1944 as a result of the war with Finland. The relocation of the state border raised the question about creation of a new transport infrastructure for the supply of large industrial enterprises located there. For the Soviet leadership, the restoration of production in …
Soviet industrial production and waste dispersal
This article examines the industrial wastes and environmental effects of Soviet technological development through the history of the Karelian Isthmus, a border territory that had previously been Finnish. Focusing primarily on the history of two large enterprises – the Svetogorskii (former Enso) and Sovetskii (former Johannes) pulp and paper making plants, the authors illustrate the polluting nature of the Soviet economy in the 1940s–1980s. We con…
Technological inequalities and motivation of Soviet institutions in the scientific-technological cooperation of Comecon in Europe, 1950s–80s
This article examines Comecon’s scientific-technological cooperation via the lens of the so-called ‘direct contacts’ of Soviet industrial and research institutions and specialists. It emphasizes two particular questions: the place of institutional and technological inequality in the attempt to integrate socialist Europe; and the motivations of Soviet research and industrial institutions. The paper studies from a local perspective the way in which…
Eseh Notepad
Challenging Europe
Since the nineteenth century, access to and the development of natural resources became an important element of national and international politics. Resource security emerged as an issue vital to national security; and resource competition and crises gave rise to international tensions as well as to technological innovation and new modes of transnational cooperation
Socialist Construction for Siberia
This article examines the history of socialist collaboration in Comecon through the lens of a large industrial project in Soviet Siberia. It examines the construction of the Ust'-Ilimsk forest industrial complex which was conceived as a collective effort of six socialist European countries. On the one hand, the project formed part of the Soviet Union's strategy of technological colonization of Soviet Eastern lands, and on the other, it aimed to e…
The Power of the Periphery
Reviewed by: The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World by Peder Anker Elena Kochetkova (bio) The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World By Peder Anker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 288. The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World By Peder Anker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 288. Many…
Abandoned, But Not Forgotten Heritage
This paper examines Russian industrial heritage and its interactions with society. It focuses on changing identities and the transformation of industrial enterprises from connecters to the future in Soviet times, to bridges to both the past and the future for different social groups in post-Soviet Russia. Based on regional examples from the Russian northwest, this article analyzes the trajectories of industrial enterprises from urban centers to p…
Performing Inventiveness
This article examines the phenomenon of Soviet industrial and technical creativity ( promyshlennoe i tekhnicheskoe tvorchestvo ) from the late 1950s to the 1980s. It particularly focuses on the invention and rationalization movement at industrial enterprises through the lens of Soviet industrial policy. It emphasizes creativity as a labor resource and incentive developed into the oversized system and shows its structural elements and encouragemen…
Making Food Modernity
From the mid-1950s, industrial food manufacturing has become a key priority of the Soviet economy. Increasing the production of agricultural and manufactured foodstuffs was a matter of improving living standards, which from 1961 the Soviet leadership declared as a crucial step in achieving the aims of communism. At the same time, since the 1950s and 1960s, the role of science and technology in making food products has significantly increased, pro…
The Green Power of Socialism
How the Soviet forestry industry developed a unique form of industrial ecology—a commonsense approach toward natural resources for the economy and society. In The Green Power of Socialism, Elena Kochetkovaexamines the relationship between nature and humans under state socialism by looking at the industrial role of Soviet forests. The book explores evolving Soviet policies of wood consumption, discussing how professionals working in the forestry i…
Technological Style and Ecology in the USSR in the 1940s and 1950s
This article examines the technological style and interplay between technological development and ecology in the USSR in the first post–World War II decade. The study covers practices of work at the enterprises that produced significant industrial pollution in the Soviet Union. In so doing, the article is focused on the history of several pulp- and paper-making enterprises on the Karelian Isthmus, a territory that was annexed by the Soviet Union …
Being Together, Growing Affluence
The article examines inter-state attempts to enhance industrial development in the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon, or CMEA) between the 1950s and 1980s. It studies how state socialism aimed to build a network of economic and research institutions to transform the bloc into a technological leader during the Cold War. Building upon previously unpublished archival sources, this research focuses on cooperation in chemistry through th…
Hero Projects
People’s Control and the Morality Quest of the Late Soviet Economy
“People’s Control” was a centrally controlled institution of economic and social regulation widespread in state socialist countries and, particularly, in the Soviet Union between 1965 and 1991. The ideology underpinning the institution, however, insisted on its vernacular nature and framed its actions in terms of a democratic approach to economic problems. The offices of people’s control proliferated as part of a system that covered the whole cou…
Forestry Chemical Sector and the Challenge of Waste-Free Production in the USSR, 1950s — 1980s
The article examines the development of the forest chemical sector in the USSR during the 1950s — 1980s. The emphasis is placed on the changes that occurred in the industry, as well as on the issue of waste-free production in the forest industry. It is shown how chemistry became one of the main areas of industrial development in the USSR after the Great Patriotic War, including in the field of wood processing. One of the successful projects was t…
Zero Growth, Socialist Modernity, and the Anti-Environmental Turn in Eastern Europe
Introduction. Global fat resources
This article was published open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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