<i>All Shook Up: The Shifting Soviet Response to Catastrophes, 1917–1991</i>
Journal: The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Year: 2018

The Soviet Union is infamous for its environmental disasters, but it is less well known for its seismic history. When we think of earthquakes, places like San Francisco, Kanto, Sumatra, Lisbon, New Madrid, Mexico City, and Lima jump more readily to mind. Yet, the Soviet Union (and tsarist Russia before it) was among the most seismically active (and seismically transformative) countries in the world—especially in the mountainous, multi-ethnic borderland regions to the south and east. All too litt