Marin Coudreau is a researcher focusing on the overlaps of the military, environmental, and transnational histories of the Soviet Union. He completed his PhD at Nantes University in France in November 2017. His dissertation explores the entanglements of war and mass violence with pest control practices in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia. He is a research associate at the Center for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies (CERCEC, EHESS) since 2018. He is interested in broadening the field of war, mass violence and the environment in a Russian/Soviet and global context.