Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. The Cultural Context.- 3. The First Assessment.- 4. Shifting Grounds.- 5. Lazarev's Letter.- 6. Transformation.- 7. Attempted Consolidation.- 8. The Latter Soviet period.- 9. Modern Russia.- 10. Conclusions.

About the Author

Rip Bulkeley lives in Oxford, UK, and has published numerous articles on polar history, and on the Bellingshausen expedition in particular, in Polar Record and other journals. His book Bellingshausen and the Russian Antarctic Expedition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) was awarded the Anderson Medal by the Society of Nautical Research.