- Department of Archaeology, Conservation, and History
University of Oslo
PB 1008, Blindern, NO-0315 Oslo, Norway
- History of Medicine, Soviet History, Environmental History, Social History of Medicine, Built Environment, Global History, and 22 moreRussian History, Black Sea region, Culture in the Soviet Union, History of Science, History of Technology, Socialisms, Transnational and World History, Agricultural History, Soviet Union (History), Soviet Visual Culture, Stalin and Stalinism, History of Landscape Architecture, International Organizations (International Studies), Aesthetics Of Nature, Architecture and Public Spaces, The League of Nations, Maritime and Oceanic History, Maritime History, Bulgarian history, Romanian History, Garden Cities, and History of Soviet Architectureedit
- I am an Associate Professor of Environmental History in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at th... moreI am an Associate Professor of Environmental History in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo. I specialize in the environmental history of Russia and the Soviet Union.
My first book manuscript is a history of the sanatorium, spanning the entire Soviet period. Through the prism of the sanatorium, the manuscript investigates scientific and popular medicine, architecture, urban planning, the transformation of the natural environment and the rise of mass tourism, emphasizing the intersection of ideas of nature and health in Soviet culture and the development of the Soviet welfare state over the entire Soviet period.
My other research interests include maritime history, particularly the history of the Black Sea; international history; the history of agriculture, and food culture. I am moving in my second project into Soviet history in global perspective.
I have a Ph.D. and M.A. in History from Harvard University and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Yale University.edit - Terry Martinedit
This article explores the relationship between urban planning and social order in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. From the mid-1930s, urban planners sought to shape the social order by reducing urban population density, limiting urban... more
This article explores the relationship between urban planning and social order in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. From the mid-1930s, urban planners sought to shape the social order by reducing urban population density, limiting urban growth, and controlling mobility. The article explores how urban planners translated the ideal of less densely populated cities into designed built environments, through a study of how they theorized urban green space. This study ties the history of urban planning to the history of urban policing, mass operations, and the social repressions of the Stalinist 1930s through the lens of territoriality. It treats the rise of urban planning and urban policing as part of a single, state project to establish social order in cities, through establishing control over territory, implicating Soviet urban planners in the violent processes of social engineering of Stalinism.
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Research Interests: Soviet History, History of Medicine, Environmental History, Soviet Union (History), Urban Environmental History, and 7 moreHistory of National Parks, Social History of Medicine, Stalin and Stalinism, History of Conservation and Restoration, Health Resorts and Spas, Protection of Nature in Urban Areas, Landscape Ecology, and Russian Environmental History
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This paper, based on Russian archival materials from Sochi and Moscow, focuses on patient perspectives on nutrition and health at sanatoria and rest homes in the health resorts of the Soviet Union under Stalin (1928-1953), in the context... more
This paper, based on Russian archival materials from Sochi and Moscow, focuses on patient perspectives on nutrition and health at sanatoria and rest homes in the health resorts of the Soviet Union under Stalin (1928-1953), in the context of the rise of scientific nutrition as a branch of Soviet medical research and practice. It places patient perspectives, drawn from sanatorium comment books, menus and medical reports, into the context of ongoing efforts by visionary nutritionists to transform popular diets and ideas about health. While nutritionists attempted to introduce lower-calorie diets, raw foods, vegetarianism, fasting and other experimental diets, the paper demonstrates that among patients, a trip to a sanatorium was understood as a type of reward for good service to the state, which came in the form of nutritional indulgence. As the archival evidence demonstrates repeatedly, patients arrived at the sanatorium with the intention to eat their fill, gain weight, and improve their health. And their demands were often met, with sanatoria serving diets of up to 7,000 calories a day, or roughly what a family member of an industrial worker would normally receive in a week in the 1930s from state supplies. By the mid-1930s, health resorts emerged within the institutional landscape of Stalinism as places of plenty, where the promised abundance of Stalinism could be experienced.