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1 online resource (352 pages) |
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Studies in Environment and History |
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Studies in environment and history
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| Contents |
Introduction; What Is Environmental History in This Book?; Large-Scale Projects and Large-Scale Bureaucracies; Physical Geography and Ecosystems of the Soviet Union; Tundra11; Taiga14; Steppe; Arid Regions; The Aral Sea; 1 From Imperial to Socialist Nature Preservation; Nature and Society in Pre-Petrine Russia, 900-1700; Conservation from Peter the Great to the Russian Revolution; Natural Resources: Early Management Practices of Forests; Agriculture and Environment in Tsarist Russia; Inland Fisheries During the Tsarist Era |
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"Environmental" Concerns in Imperial Russia and the Rise of Nature PreservesThe Weak Institutional Foundation of Ecology; Environmental Concerns After the Russian Revolution; From Tsarism to Bolshevism to Stalinism -- and the Environment; 2 Stalinism; An Evaluation of the Environmental Costs of Stalins Plan for Rapid Industrialization; Stalin, the Great Break and Nature; Urbanization in the Stalin Era; War on the Agriculture: Soviet Agriculture; The Gulag on the Frontier of the Soviet Empire50; Environmentalists and the Nature Protection Movement under Stalin; Costs of World War II |
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High Stalinism and the Transformation of NatureSoviet Forests and the Stalinist Plan to Transform Nature; Conquest of Siberia and the Far North and the Rise of the Modern Defense Industry; Transformationist Economic and Political Desiderata and the Soviet Environment; 3 The Khrushchev Reforms, Environmental Politics, and the Awakening of Environmentalism, 1953-1964; Khrushchev Era Economic Reforms: Impact on Environmental Policies; Technocratic Euphoria and Indifference to the Environment; Khrushchevs Agricultural Programs; The Corn Campaign: Grasslands and Maize Malaise |
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The Assault on ForestsThe Environmental Cost of Energy Production: The Case of Hydroelectricity; The Struggle to Protect Nature Reserves Renewed; Big Projects, the Environment and Nature Under Khrushchev; 4 Developed Socialism, Environmental Degradation, and the Time of Economic "Stagnation," 1964-1985; The Legacy of Heavy Industry; Soviet Environmental Policy from the 1960s to 1980s; Domestic Determinants of Environmental Policy; Economic Disincentives to Rational Environmental Policy; The Urban Environment; Acid Rain, Air Pollution, and the Soviet Union; Water, Water Everywhere |
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"Hero Projects" of the Brezhnev Era: From Central Asia to Lake Baikal and SiberiaForest Resources and Soviet Management Practices; The Development of Environmental Thinking in the Brezhnev Era; The Rise of Environmental Interest and Public Action Groups; Literature, the Press, and Environmentalism131; Environment and Society on the Eve of the Gorbachev Reforms; 5 Gorbachevs Reforms, Glasnost, and Econationalism; Gorbachev, Reforms, and Environmental Issues; The Chernobyl Disaster2; Radiation Contamination; Perestroika and the Formation of New Environmental Institutions |
| Summary |
This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment |
| Notes |
Civil Society and Environmentalism in the Gorbachev Era22 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Russia (Federation) -- History
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Ethnoecology -- Russia (Federation) -- History
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Environmental degradation -- Russia (Federation) -- History
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Environmental policy -- Russia (Federation) -- History
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Ecology.
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Environmental degradation.
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Environmental policy.
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Human ecology.
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Ethnoecology.
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Umwelt
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Natur
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| SUBJECT |
Russia (Federation) -- Environmental conditions
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| Subject |
Russia (Federation)
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Russland
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dronin, Nicolai
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Mnatsakanian, Ruben
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Cherp, Aleh
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Efremenko, Dmitry
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Larin, Vladislav
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| ISBN |
9781107345027 |
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1107345022 |
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1299838464 |
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9781299838468 |
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9781139021043 |
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1139021044 |
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9780521869584 |
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9781107347526 |
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0521869587 |
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1107347521 |
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1107357144 |
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9781107357143 |
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1107341272 |
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9781107341272 |
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