Nature and the Iron Curtain :  environmental policy and social movements in Communist and capitalist countries, 1945-1990 / 
edited by Astrid Mignon Kirchhof and J.R. McNeill. 
 - Pittsburgh :  University of Pittsburgh Press,  (c)2019. 
 - 1 online resource (vi, 312 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Environmentalism, Environmental Policy, Capitalism, and Communism /  Astrid Mignon Kirchhof and J. R. McNeill; PART I. Communist and Capitalist Systems Revisited: A Comparison of Their Environmental Politics; 1. Building a Soviet Eco-Power while Looking at the Capitalist World: The Rise of Technocratic Environmentalism in Russian Water Controversies, 1957-1989 /  Laurent Coumel; 2. Water Pollution and Protection in the Lithuanian Soviet Republic /  Anolda Cetkauskaite and Simo Laakkonen 3. The Fallout of Chernobyl: The Emergence of an Environmental Movement in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic /  Tetiana Perga4. Keeping the Air Clean?: Environmental Policy, Utility Companies, and Social Movements in West Germany since the 1970s /  Hendrik Ehrhardt; 5. From Anti-Nuke to Okopax: 1970s Anti-Reactor Activism and the Emergence of West Germany's Mass Movement for Peace /  Stephen Milder; 6. An Unguided Boom: Environmental Policies of Cold War Italy /  Wilko Graf von Hardenberg 7. Nuclear-Free Montana: Grassroots Environmentalism and Montana's Antinuclear Initiatives /  Brian James LeechPART II. The Porous Iron Curtain; 8. Building a Socialist Environment: Czechoslovak Environmental Policy from the 1960s to the 1980s /  Eagle Glassheim; 9. Protesting Pollution: Environmental Activism in East Germany and Poland, 1980-1990 /  Julia E. Ault; 10. About Environmental Policy in Socialist Yugoslavia /  Hrvoje Petrić; 11. ""It Makes No Sense to Work against Nature"": Cold War Modernization in West German Agriculture /  Scott Moranda; PART III. Environmentalism and Détente? 12. An American Miracle in the Desert: Environmental Crisis and Nuclear-Powered Desalination in the Middle East /  Jacob Darwin Hamblin13. East Germany's Fight for Recognition as a Sovereign State: Environmental Diplomacy as Strategy in Cold War Politics /  Astrid Mignon Kirchhof; Notes; Contributors; Index 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822986485 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cold War--Social aspects.<br/>Cold War--Environmental aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D840  / .N388 2019