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Imagining the Russian Provinces -- Soil, forest, river : the ecology of provincial life -- Urban topography -- Rhythms : the local economy -- An Artisanal case study: the Southeast -- Social space : numbers, images, biographies -- Managing the province : local administration -- The Cadastral map in the service of the Zemstvo -- Church and religion -- Provincial cultural nests -- The idea of province

One of the most important events of the summer of 1917 was the opening of the All–Russian Council of the Orthodox church on 15 August in Moscow. In a dramatic opening ceremony, solemn processions from all the churches of Moscow converged on Red Square for the service led by Metropolitan Tikhon. The council had been convened by a 5 July order of the Holy Synod and its chief procurator, V. N. L'vov, with the concurrence of the Provisional Government. The calling of a church council–the first since Peter's establishment of the collegial system of administration–was a substantive change in church governance and also had a symbolic meaning. In pre-Petrine Russia, the councils not merely had played an ecclesiastical role but had formed an integral part of national government. (For example, Ivan IV and the church council had worked together to implement changes in the secular code of law as well as in spiritual and ecclesiastical matters.)

The writings of Sergei Bulgakov (1871-1944), like those of other major social thinkers of Russia's Silver Age, were obliterated from public consciousness under Soviet rule. Discovered again after eighty years of silence, Bulgakov's work speaks with remarkable directness to the postmodern listener. This outstanding translation of Philosophy of Economy brings to English-language speakers for the first time a major work of social theory written by a critical figure in the Russian tradition of liberal thought.What is unique about Bulgakov, Catherine Evtuhov explains in her introduction to this book, is that he bridges two worlds. His social thought is firmly based in the Western tradition, yet some of his ideas reflect a specifically Russian way of thinking about society. Though arguing strenuously in favor of political and social liberty, Bulgakov repudiates the individualistic basis of Western liberalism in favor of a conception of human dignity that is compatible with collectivity. His economic theory stresses the spiritual content of life in the world and imagines national life as a kind of giant household. Bulgakov's work, with its singularly postmodern balance between Western and non-Western, offers fascinating implications for those in the process of reevaluating ideologies in post-Soviet Russia and in America as well

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Text -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I - Industrialzation and Its Environmental Contexts -- Chapter 1 - Natural Resources and Management Expertise in the Monastic Salt Industry of the White Sea Area in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Chapter 2 - Early Russian Industrialization: An Environmental Perspective -- Chapter 3 - Seeing Oil: Isaak Levitan and the Industrial Volga -- Chapter 4 - Kazan' Citizens against Air Pollution: The Case of the Ushkov & -- Co. Chemical Factory (1893-1917) -- Chapter 5 - "Environing" the North: Fishing and Hunting in the Industrial Development of Khanty-Mansi Okrug, 1960-75 -- Part II - Humans and Animals -- Chapter 6 - Camels in European Russia: Exotic Farm Animals and Agricultural Knowledge -- Chapter 7 - Public Health across Species: Domestic Animals and Sanitary Reforms in Imperial Russia -- Part III - Environment and Politics in the Late Soviet Space -- Chapter 8 - How Wetlands Entered the Transnational Spaces of Late Soviet Environmentalism -- Chapter 9 - "You Ought to Love Nature!": People's Control Committees-Environmental Whistleblowers and Western Siberian Oil in the 1970s -- Part IV - Geography and Environment Past and Present -- Chapter 10 - Empire, Settlement, and Environment: The Russian Empire and Donald Meinig's "Macrogeography of Western Imperialism" -- Chapter 11 - Tracks across the Tundra: Making a Liveing from Nature in the Borderland of the Russian Northwest -- Afterword - Russian and Soviet Environmental History: Unexceptionalism and Exceptionalism -- Glossary -- Index.

Sergii Bulgakov (1871–1944) is one of the preeminent theologians of the 20th century whose work is still being discovered and explored in and for the 21st century. The famous rival of Lenin in the field of economics, was, according to Wassily Kandinsky, "one of the deepest experts on religious life" in early twentieth-century Russian art and culture. As economist, publicist, politician, and later Orthodox theologian and priest, he became a significant "global player" in both the Orthodox diaspora and the Ecumenical movement in the interwar period.
This anthology gathers the papers delivered at the international conference on the occasion of Bulgakov's 150th birthday at the University of Fribourg in September 2021. The chapters, written by established Bulgakov specialists, including Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury (2002–2012), as well as young researchers from different theological disciplines and ecclesial traditions, explore Bulgakov's way of meeting the challenges in the modern world and of building bridges between East and West. The authors bring forth a wide range of new creative ways to constructively engage with Bulgakov's theological worldview and cover topics such as personhood, ecology, political theology and Trinitarian ontology.