Together, the essays reveal how colonial structures operate and the lasting impact they have on landscapes, climate, and communities. The essays bear witness to secret nuclear testing, contaminated water, mining, drained lakes for cotton production, and the destruction of Indigenous ways of life, languages, cultures, and world-making practices. The Soviet Union carried out all of this to prove its superiority over capitalism. For Indigenous peoples, socialism and capitalism alike arrived as "modernizing" and "civilizing" missions – interested neither in understanding nor coexistence, but in subjugation.

The day brings together a conversation and Q&A with the book's editors and authors, a discussion with the co-founder of Asians of Russia on the ecological situation in North Asia, a food ritual, and the chance to buy a copy.