TY  - BOOK
AU  - Josephson,Paul
AU  - Dronin,Nicolai
AU  - Mnatsakanian,Ruben
AU  - Cherp,Aleh
AU  - Efremenko,Dmitry
AU  - Larin,Vladislav
TI  - An Environmental History of Russia
T2  - Studies in Environment and History
SN  - 9781139021043 (ebook)
AV  - GF602.7 .J67 2013
U1  - 304.20947 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139021043
ER  -