Part I: Foundations Introduction: The Russian Cold Julia Herzberg, Andreas Renner, Ingrid Schierle Chapter 1. Climate Ideas and the Cold in Russia Julia Herzberg Part II: Science and Politics Chapter 2. The Nature of Cold: Russia's Climate and the Academy of Sciences in the Eighteenth Century Julia Herzberg Chapter 3. The Russian South Pole Expedition in the Context of Political Interests of the Soviet Union during the Cold War era Erki Tammiksaar Chapter 4. The Subarctic: A Classic Soviet Study of the Tundra Denis J. B. Shaw Part III: Images and Narratives Chapter 5. From a "Country of Cold and Gloom" to a "Welcoming Land": Climate and the Image of Siberia in the Russian Periodical Press, 1860s to the Early 1900s Nataliia Rodigina Chapter 6.

Local Warming: Cold, Ice and Snow in Russian and Soviet Cinema Oksana Bulgakowa Chapter 7. The Aesthetics of Cold: Narrating National Trauma in Film Roman Mauer Part IV: Pain and Pleasure Chapter 8. The Wehrmacht and the Russian Winter: The Impact of Climate at the Front and in Soviet Captivity Aleksandr Kuzminykh Chapter 9. Winter Tourism and Skiing in the Soviet Union: School of Courage, Source of Health, National Pastime Aleksei Popov Chapter 10. Heroes of the Ice: The Polar Explorer and the Hockey Player as Two Masculine Identity Scripts of the Soviet Era Alexander Ananyev Conclusion Julia Herzberg, Andreas Renner, Ingrid Schierle.