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Weiner Douglas R. <1951-> |
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A little corner of freedom : Russian nature protection from Stalin to Gorbachëv / / Douglas R. Weiner |
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Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c1999 |
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ISBN |
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0-520-92811-3 |
0-585-25387-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 556 p. ) : ill. ; |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Environmentalism - Soviet Union - History |
Environmentalism - Former Soviet republics - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-527) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Chapter 1. Environmental Activism and Social Identity -- Chapter 2. Archipelago of Freedom -- Chapter 3. The Road to "Liquidation": Conservation in the Postwar Years -- Chapter 4. Zapovedniki in Peril, 1948-1950 -- Chapter 5. Liquidation: The Second Phase, 1950 -- Chapter 6. The Deluge, 1951 -- Chapter 7. In the Throes of Crisis: VOOP in Stalin's Last Years -- Chapter 8. Death and Purgatory -- Chapter 9. VOOP after Stalin: Survival and Decay -- Chapter 10. Resurrection -- Chapter 11. A Time to Build -- Chapter 12. A Time to Meet -- Chapter 13. More Trouble in Paradise: Crises of the Zapovedniki in the Khrushchëv Era -- Chapter 14. Student Movements: Catalysts for a New Activism -- Chapter 15. Three Men in a Boat: VOOP in the Early 1960s -- Chapter 16. Storm over Baikal -- Chapter 17. Science Doesn't Stand Still -- Chapter 18. Environmental Struggles in the Era of Stagnation -- Chapter 19. Environmental Activism under Gorbachëv -- Conclusion |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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While researching Russia's historical efforts to protect nature, Douglas Weiner unearthed unexpected findings: a trail of documents that raised fundamental questions about the Soviet political system. These surprising documents attested to the unlikely survival of a critical-minded, scientist-led movement through the Stalin years and beyond. It appeared that, within scientific societies, alternative visions of land use, resrouce exploitation, habitat protection, and development were |
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sustained and even publicly advocated. In sharp contrast to known Soviet practices, these scientific societies prided themselves on their traditions of free elections, foreign contacts, and a pre-revolutionary heritage.Weiner portrays nature protection activists not as do-or-die resisters to the system, nor as inoffensive do-gooders. Rather, they took advantage of an unpoliced realm of speech and activity and of the patronage by middle-level Soviet officials to struggle for a softer path to development. In the process, they defended independent social and professional identities in the face of a system that sought to impose official models of behavior, ethics, and identity for all. Written in a lively style, this absorbing story tells for the first time how organized participation in nature protection provided an arena for affirming and perpetuating self-generated social identities in the USSR and preserving a counterculture whose legacy survives today. |
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