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Ekologicheskaya istoriya rossiiskikh stepei: Vasilii Dokuchaev i neurozhai 1891 g. The Environmental History of the Russian Steppes: Vasilii Dokuchaev and the Harvest Failure of 1891 (2009)
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Moon, D. (2009). Ekologicheskaya istoriya rossiiskikh stepei: Vasilii Dokuchaev i neurozhai 1891 g. The Environmental History of the Russian Steppes: Vasilii Dokuchaev and the Harvest Failure of 1891. Вопросы истории естествознания и техники. Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniâ i tehniki, 3, 48-71

This article examines aspects of the environmental histories of the Russian steppes in the long term and in a comparative framework by focusing on the work of the prominent Russian scientist Vasilii Dokuchaev in response to the drought and harvest fa... Read More about Ekologicheskaya istoriya rossiiskikh stepei: Vasilii Dokuchaev i neurozhai 1891 g. The Environmental History of the Russian Steppes: Vasilii Dokuchaev and the Harvest Failure of 1891.

In the Russians' steppes: the introduction of Russian wheat on the Great Plains of the United States of America (2008)
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Moon, D. (2008). In the Russians' steppes: the introduction of Russian wheat on the Great Plains of the United States of America. Journal of Global History, 3(2), 203-225. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1740022808002611

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, wheat varieties from the Russian steppes were introduced on the Great Plains of the USA, a region with a similar environment. The introduction was partly a by-product of the migration of German fa... Read More about In the Russians' steppes: the introduction of Russian wheat on the Great Plains of the United States of America.

The environmental history of the Russian steppes: Vasilii Dokuchaev and the harvest failure of 1891 (2005)
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Moon, D. (2005). The environmental history of the Russian steppes: Vasilii Dokuchaev and the harvest failure of 1891. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 15, 149-174. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0080440105000320

This article examines aspects of the environmental history of the Russian steppes in the long term and in a comparative framework by focusing on the work of the prominent Russian scientist Vasilii Dokuchaev in response to the drought and harvest fail... Read More about The environmental history of the Russian steppes: Vasilii Dokuchaev and the harvest failure of 1891.

The inventory reform and peasant unrest in right-bank Ukraine in 1847-48 (2001)
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Moon, D. (2001). The inventory reform and peasant unrest in right-bank Ukraine in 1847-48. Slavonic and East European Review, 79(4), 653-697

In 1847-48, the Imperial Russian government attempted to address both the problem of the unreliable Roman Catholic Polish nobility of right-bank Ukraine and the question of the future of serfdom in the region. However, the implementation of compulsor... Read More about The inventory reform and peasant unrest in right-bank Ukraine in 1847-48.