LEADER 04104nam 2200517 a 450 001 9910496135903321 005 20221108064442.0 010 $a0-520-92811-3 010 $a0-585-25387-0 024 7 $a2027/heb05308 035 $a(CKB)111004366721782 035 $a(dli)HEB05308 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000006856271 035 $a(PPN)176452435 035 $a(DE-B1597)648354 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520928114 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366721782 100 $a19990802d1999 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA little corner of freedom $eRussian nature protection from Stalin to Gorbache?v /$fDouglas R. Weiner 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. $cUniversity of California Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 556 p. )$cill. ; 311 $a0-520-23213-5 311 $a0-520-21397-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 451-527) and index. 327 $tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Environmental Activism and Social Identity --$tChapter 2. Archipelago of Freedom --$tChapter 3. The Road to "Liquidation": Conservation in the Postwar Years --$tChapter 4. Zapovedniki in Peril, 1948-1950 --$tChapter 5. Liquidation: The Second Phase, 1950 --$tChapter 6. The Deluge, 1951 --$tChapter 7. In the Throes of Crisis: VOOP in Stalin's Last Years --$tChapter 8. Death and Purgatory --$tChapter 9. VOOP after Stalin: Survival and Decay --$tChapter 10. Resurrection --$tChapter 11. A Time to Build --$tChapter 12. A Time to Meet --$tChapter 13. More Trouble in Paradise: Crises of the Zapovedniki in the Khrushchëv Era --$tChapter 14. Student Movements: Catalysts for a New Activism --$tChapter 15. Three Men in a Boat: VOOP in the Early 1960s --$tChapter 16. Storm over Baikal --$tChapter 17. Science Doesn't Stand Still --$tChapter 18. Environmental Struggles in the Era of Stagnation --$tChapter 19. Environmental Activism under Gorbachëv --$tConclusion 330 $aWhile 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 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. 517 3 $aRussian nature protection from Stalin to Gorbache?v 606 $aEnvironmentalism$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aEnvironmentalism$zFormer Soviet republics$xHistory 615 0$aEnvironmentalism$xHistory. 615 0$aEnvironmentalism$xHistory. 676 $a363.7/056/0947 686 $aTB 2385$2rvk 700 $aWeiner$b Douglas R.$f1951-$01021174 712 02$aAmerican Council of Learned Societies. 801 0$bMiU 801 1$bMiU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910496135903321 996 $aA little corner of freedom$92419574 997 $aUNINA