Red Leviathan

A revealing and authoritative history that shows how Soviet whalers secretly helped nearly destroy endangered whale populations, while also contributing to the scientific understanding necessary for these creatures’ salvation. The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today’s oceans. In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews with ex-whalers, environmental historian Ryan Tucker Jones offers a complete history of the role the Soviet Union played in the whales’ destruction. As other countries—especially the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Norway—expanded their pursuit of whales to all corners of the globe, Stalin determined that the Soviet Union needed to join the hunt. What followed was a spectacularly prodigious, and often wasteful, destruction of humpback, fin, sei, right, and sperm whales in the Antarctic and the North Pacific, done in knowing violation of the International Whaling Commission’s rules. Cold War intrigue encouraged this destruction, but, as Jones shows, there is a more complex history behind this tragic Soviet experiment. Jones compellingly describes the ultimate scientific irony: today’s cetacean studies benefited from Soviet whaling, as Russian scientists on whaling vessels made key breakthroughs in understanding whale natural history and behavior. And in a final twist, Red Leviathan reveals how the Soviet public began turning against their own country’s whaling industry, working in parallel with Western environmental organizations like Greenpeace to help end industrial whaling—not long before the world’s whales might have disappeared altogether.

Russia's Whale Problem -- The Whales of Distant Seas -- A Revolution in Whaling -- North Pacific Numbers -- War and Glory in the Antarctic -- Aleksei Solyanik and the End of Area V -- The Kollektiv and the Long Ruble -- The Cetacean Genocide -- Scientists Locate Their Prey -- Whales in the Home -- A Whale Is Not a Fish: Back to the North Pacific -- Greenpeace and the View from the Dal'nii Vostok.

Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.

Reproduction of the original: Mr. Crewe ́s Career by Winston Churchill

BOOK 1. CHAPTER I. THE HONOURABLE HILARY VANE SITS FOR HIS PORTRAIT CHAPTER II. ON THE TREATMENT OF PRODIGALS CHAPTER III. CONCERNING THE PRACTICE OF LAW CHAPTER IV. "TIMEO DANAOS" CHAPTER V. THE PARTING OF THE WAYS CHAPTER VI. ENTER THE LION CHAPTER VII. THE LEOPARD AND HIS SPOTS CHAPTER VIII. THE TRIALS OF AN HONOURABLE CHAPTER IX. Mr. CREWE ASSAULTS THE CAPITAL CHAPTER X. "FOR BILLS MAY COME, AND BILLS MAY GO" BOOK 2. CHAPTER XI. THE HOPPER CHAPTER XII. Mr. REDBROOK'S PARTY CHAPTER XIII. THE REALM OF PEGASUS CHAPTER XIV. THE DESCENDANTS OF HORATIUS CHAPTER XV. THE DISTURBANCE OF JUNE SEVENTH CHAPTER XVI. THE "BOOK OF ARGUMENTS" IS OPENED CHAPTER XVII. BUSY DAYS AT WEDDERBURN CHAPTER XVIII. A SPIRIT IN THE WOODS CHAPTER XIX. MR. JABE JENNEY ENTERTAINS CHAPTER XX. MR. CREWE: AN APPRECIATION (1) BOOK 3. CHAPTER XXI. ST. GILES OF THE BLAMELESS LIFE CHAPTER XXII. IN WHICH EUPHRASIA TAKES A HAND CHAPTER XXIII. A FALLING-OUT IN HIGH PLACES CHAPTER XXIV. AN ADVENTURE OF VICTORIA'S CHAPTER XXV. MORE ADVENTURER CHAPTER XXVI. THE FOCUS OF WRATH CHAPTER XXVII. THE ARENA AND THE DUST CHAPTER XXVIII. THE VOICE OF AN ERA CHAPTER XXIX. THE VALE OF THE BLUE CHAPTER XXX. P.S. By request of one who has read thus far, and is still curious.

An illustrated, encyclopedic overview of the prophecies, calendars, and theories that indicate the year 2012 is a threshold of great change for humanity • Looks at the scientific and anthropological evidence for the rare galactic alignment due to occur in December 2012 • Sifts through the catastrophic theories to show what we might really expect in 2012 In December of 2012 the Mayan Calendar’s Great Cycle will come to an end. Opinion remains divided as to whether apocalyptic scenarios of worldwide destruction or utopian visions of a spiritually renewed humanity will prevail after this key date has passed. What is certain, however, is that a rare galactic alignment will occur, one so unique that it is found at the core of many wisdom traditions from around the globe. Geoff Stray has been collecting the vast amounts of data relating to the 2012 phenomena since 1982. Far from confining his research to the Maya, who provide the most prominent predictions indicating this date will herald significant changes for humanity, he has studied the prophetic traditions of other cultures--including the Tibetan, Chinese, Jewish, Ethiopian, and tribal cultures from around the globe--to show the kind of convergence of cosmic purposes happening along a number of parallel tracks. This book offers an extensive study of many modern theories, including Terence McKenna’s timewave zero and Maurice Cotterell’s sunspot research as well as anomalous phenomena such as near death experiences and crop circles. Sifting through all the scientific research and speculation that the year 2012 has inspired, Geoff Stray provides an encyclopedic look at what we might really expect on this pivotal date.