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An environmental history of Russia /Paul Josephson [and others.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in environment and historyPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781107341272
  • 9781139021043
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GF602 .E585 2013
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Stalinism : creating the socialist industrial, urban, and agricultural environment -- The Khrushchev reforms, environmental politics, and the awakening of environmentalism, 1953-1964 -- Developed socialism, environmental degradation, and the time of economic "stagnation," 1964-1985 -- Gorbachev's reforms, Glasnost, and econationalism.
Subject: The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas and coal; various ores; major rivers such as the Volga, Don and Angara; and extensive biodiversity. These resources and animals, as well as the people who lived in the former Soviet Union - Slavs, Armenians, Georgians, Azeris, Kazakhs and Tajiks, indigenous Nenets and Chukchi - were threatened by environmental degradation and extensive pollution. This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment. The authors consider the impact of Bolshevik ideology on the establishment of an extensive system of nature preserves, the effect of Stalinist practices of industrialization and collectivization on nature, and the rise of public involvement under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, and changes to policies and practices with the rise of Gorbachev and the break-up of the USSR.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

From imperial to socialist nature preservation : environmental protection and resource development in the Russian Empire, 1861-1925 -- Stalinism : creating the socialist industrial, urban, and agricultural environment -- The Khrushchev reforms, environmental politics, and the awakening of environmentalism, 1953-1964 -- Developed socialism, environmental degradation, and the time of economic "stagnation," 1964-1985 -- Gorbachev's reforms, Glasnost, and econationalism.

The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas and coal; various ores; major rivers such as the Volga, Don and Angara; and extensive biodiversity. These resources and animals, as well as the people who lived in the former Soviet Union - Slavs, Armenians, Georgians, Azeris, Kazakhs and Tajiks, indigenous Nenets and Chukchi - were threatened by environmental degradation and extensive pollution. This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment. The authors consider the impact of Bolshevik ideology on the establishment of an extensive system of nature preserves, the effect of Stalinist practices of industrialization and collectivization on nature, and the rise of public involvement under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, and changes to policies and practices with the rise of Gorbachev and the break-up of the USSR.

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