Online event: Pollution and sanitizing: Imperial environmental policy, legislation and everyday life
Feb 26 (Thu), 14:00–16:00 (CET)
Anna Mazanik presents her book Sanitizing Moscow. Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia (University of Pittsburgh Press, Oct 2025)
Andrei Vinogradov presents his forthcoming book Cleaning the Empire. Industrial pollution and birth of Russia's environmental policy (CEU Press, Fall 2026)
organizer and chair: Anastasia Fedotova (St Petersburg)
Anna Mazanik is an environmental and medical historian of Russia and a research fellow at the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe. Born in Moscow, she has studied in Russia, Hungary, Germany, and the US. She holds a PhD in history from Central European University.
Sanitizing Moscow presents an environmental history of public health reforms in late imperial Moscow between 1870 and 1917. It explores the relationship between Russia’s urban modernization and the more-than-human environment in the context of the major social and political changes, triggered by the liberal reforms of the 1860s and 1870s, and the transnational rise of scientific medicine and sanitary technologies.
Andrey Vinogradov is an environmental historian whose research focuses on industrial pollution, climate change, and their social consequences in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe in Leipzig.
The rapid industrial growth that marked post-reform Russia pushed society toward an awareness of the environmental consequences of economic development. Challenging the entrenched view that industrial pollution and technological disasters first entered the political agenda as a result of Soviet forced industrialization, Andrei Vinogradov shows that environmental policy began to take shape much earlier, in conflicts between pre-revolutionary factory owners, peasants, city dumas, and ministerial officials in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Oil slicks on the Volga, toxic effluents from textile mills, and waste from sugar factories became forces that reshaped legislation and transformed the views of officials and the public on the environment.
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