Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the borders of Russia and the Soviet Union, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history. In chapters encompassing such diverse topics as polar exploration, the Eastern Front in World War II, and the iconography of hockey, it explores the multiplicity and ambiguity of "cold" in the Russian context and demonstrates the value of environmental-historical research for enriching national and imperial histories.

As a result of the Aigun (1858) and Beijing Treaties (1860) Russia had become a participant in international relations of Northeast Asia, but historiography has underestimated the presence of Russia and the USSR in this region. This collection elucidates how Russia's expansion affected early Meiji Japan's policy towards Korea and the late Qing Empire's Manchurian reform. Russia participated in the mega-imperial system of transportation and customs control in Northern China and created a transnational community around the Chinese Eastern Railway and Harbin City. The collection vividly describes daily life of the emigre Russians' community in Harbin after 1917. The collection investigates mutual images between the Russians and Japanese through the prism of the descriptions of the Japanese Imperial House in Russian newspapers and memoirs written by Russian POWs in and after the Russo-Japanese War and war journalism during this war. The first Soviet ambassador in Japan, V. Kopp, proposed to restore the division of spheres of interest between Russia and Japan during the tsarist era and thus conflicted People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, G. Chicherin, the Soviet ambassador in Beijing, L. Karakhan, and Stalin, since the latter group was more loyal to the cause of China's national liberation. As a whole, the collection argues that it is difficult to understand the modern history of Northeast Asia without taking the Russian factor seriously.

As a result of the Aigun (1858) and Beijing Treaties (1860) Russia had become a participant in international relations of Northeast Asia, but historiography has underestimated the presence of Russia and the USSR in this region. This collection elucidates how Russia's expansion affected early Meiji Japan's policy towards Korea and the late Qing Empire's Manchurian reform. Russia participated in the mega-imperial system of transportation and customs control in Northern China and created a transnational community around the Chinese Eastern Railway and Harbin City. The collection vividly describes daily life of the emigre Russians' community in Harbin after 1917. The collection investigates mutual images between the Russians and Japanese through the prism of the descriptions of the Japanese Imperial House in Russian newspapers and memoirs written by Russian POWs in and after the Russo-Japanese War and war journalism during this war. The first Soviet ambassador in Japan, V. Kopp, proposed to restore the division of spheres of interest between Russia and Japan during the tsarist era and thus conflicted People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, G. Chicherin, the Soviet ambassador in Beijing, L. Karakhan, and Stalin, since the latter group was more loyal to the cause of China's national liberation. As a whole, the collection argues that it is difficult to understand the modern history of Northeast Asia without taking the Russian factor seriously.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Elektrotechnik, Note: 1, 7 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Aufgrund des stetig wachsenden Einsatzes elektrotechnischer Maschinen und Gerate, speziell im Produktions- und Fertigungsbereich, erscheint es notwendig, Massnahmen zu ergreifen, um energieeffizienter und preiswerter zu produzieren. Eine Moglichkeit, Energie okonomisch sinnvoller zu nutzen, ist die Kompensation von Blindstromen beim Einsatz von Drehstrommotoren. Durch Kompensation dieser Blindstrome konnen Energiekosten eingespart und offentliche Energieversorgungsnetze entlastet werden. Diese Arbeit beschaftigt sich mit der Kompensation von Blindstrom bei Drehstrommotoren. Anhand eines Asynchrondrehstrommotors sollen uber praktische Versuchsdurchfuhrungen und theoretische Berechnungen die Effizienz einer Kompensation nachgewiesen und veranschaulicht werden. Die Arbeit zum Thema Kompensation von Drehstrommotoren" umfasst 8 Kapitel. Im ersten Kapitel wird eine Ubersicht uber das Wesen der Kompensation gegeben. Neben einer allgemeinen Definition der Kompensation wird daruber hinaus eine Grundlagenbetrachtung vorgenommen, um Grundlagenwissen speziell zur Kompensationsbetrachtung aufzufrischen. Das zweite Kapitel beschaftigt sich mit den Grunden, Arten, Auswirkungen, Moglichkeiten und Richtlinien der Kompensation. Im dritten Kapitel werden erste Berechnungen zum Asynchronmotor ohne Kompensation vorgenommen. Theoretische Berechnungen zur Kompensation folgen im anschliessenden vierten Kapitel, welche im funften Kapitel mittels eines Versuchsaufbaus praktisch umgesetzt werden. Im sechsten Kapitel werden ausfuhrliche Betrachtungen zum Asynchronmotor vorgenommen. Dabei werden unter anderem statische Motordaten erfasst. Das folgende siebente Kapitel beschaftigt sich mit der Anlagenbestimmung, in der der Versuchsmotor anhand eines Beispiels in eine bestehende Anlage eingebunden wird. Im Kapitel acht werden Kosten- und Nutzenfakt