Sanitizing Moscow - (History of the Urban Environment) by Anna Mazanik (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia

Review Quotes

Sanitizing Moscow is a superb book that focuses on efforts in late imperial Russia to improve public health in complex and sometimes contradictory ways. It deftly shows how social, political, and cultural factors influenced the establishment of a sewage system, the regulation of a public abattoir, and the imposition of a health regime on children.--Andy Bruno, Indiana University Bloomington

A deeply researched, creatively argued, and well-written book that will appeal to several different audiences, Sanitizing Moscow offers at the same time fascinating granular detail about everyday life in turn-of-the century Moscow and contributes to larger arguments around Europe's influence on Russia as well as about the global impacts of the revolutions in scientific thinking on disease and sanitation.--Ryan Jones, University of Oregon

About the Author

Anna Mazanik is an environmental and medical historian of Russia and a research fellow at the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe (Germany). Born in Moscow, she has studied in Russia, Hungary, Germany, and the U.S. and holds a PhD in History from Central European University. She lives in Munich.