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Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Usage -- Translations and Transliterations -- Glossary -- Archives and Archival terms -- Introduction -- An Awkward Matter and Its Historical Significance -- The Nature of Russia's Fossil Economy -- A History across Scales -- Nature's Wealth and the Intricacies of Language -- Part I Promising Environments: Material Premises of Growth and Power -- 1 Appropriation -- Resource-Making as an Elite Project -- Bureaucratic Visions of Profit and Development -- Coming to Terms with Abundance -- The Limits to Appropriation -- Resources and the Making of the Soviet State -- 2 Mobilization -- Peat and the Rise of Russia's Industrial Metabolism -- Peat Fuel during Russia's Continuum of Crisis -- Into the Electric Age -- Nature's Promise -- Embedding Peat in the Soviet Energy System -- Part II Working Environments: Extraction and the Making of Place -- 3 Exploitation -- Rhythms of Nature in an Industrializing Economy -- Shock of the Old: Cheap Labor, Gender, and Technology -- Extractive Labor in an Unruly World -- 4 Transformation -- Straight Lines across Irregular Territory -- Landscapes of Reproduction -- Place between Patriotism and Deep Time -- Part III Unsettling Environments: Threat, Loss, and Precarity in Russia's Peatlands -- 5 Irritation -- Breeding Disease -- Confronting Smoke and Fire -- The Endless Summer of 1972 -- 6 Revaluation -- Limits to Growth -- Exploited Peatlands as Horizontal Resources -- Toward a New Wetland Paradigm -- Extraction's Uncanny Afterlives -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.

This groundbreaking environmental history approaches Russia's fossil economy from its margins. Tracing the forgotten role of peat in industry and power generation, Katja Bruisch makes a compelling case for foregrounding overlooked places, people, and resources as we tell the histories of the planetary emergency.