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Book Synopsis Perestroika From Below by : Judith Sedaitis
Download or read book Perestroika From Below written by Judith Sedaitis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first comprehensive assessment of the world of social movements and collective action in the Soviet Union, and provides the information to expand our knowledge and potentially our comprehension of the dramatic processes taking place.
Book Synopsis The Soviet Environment by : John Massey Stewart
Download or read book The Soviet Environment written by John Massey Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-05-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, originally published in 1992, describes the Soviet environment at its crisis point in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Beolorussia and the Ukraine had, as a result of the Chernobyl accident, been declared ecological disaster zones and across the country as a whole as many as 20 per cent of the population lived in environmental danger areas and another 35-40 per cent in unsatisfactory conditions. According to a Supreme Soviet Environment Committee report of 1989, 80% of all illness in the USSR related either directly or indirectly to environmental problems. In this book, leading specialists from both the West and the Soviet Union present a comprehensive analysis of these problems. The contributors examine the aftermath of Chernobyl, the catastrophic causes and effects of the Aral Sea's shrinkage, the environmental issues and public unrest. The depth of analysis in this volume together with the breadth of topics addressed will ensure that it is read by students and specialists of the Soviet Union and environmental issues, as well as by all government officials, journalists and industrialists with an interest in the Soviet environment.
Book Synopsis An Environmental History of Russia by : Paul Josephson
Download or read book An Environmental History of Russia written by Paul Josephson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment.
Download or read book Eco-nationalism written by Jane I. Dawson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the rise of the anti-nuclear power movement in the former Soviet Union during the early perestroika period, its unexpected successes in the late 1980s, and its decline after 1991. This book argues that anti-nuclear activism was a surrogate for nationalism, and a means of demanding greater local self-determination under the Soviet system.
Book Synopsis What Went Wrong with Perestroika by : Marshall I. Goldman
Download or read book What Went Wrong with Perestroika written by Marshall I. Goldman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political commentator discusses the rise and fall of Mikhail Gorbachev, revealing Gorbachev as a reluctant reformer, who did nothing to counter the nation's overindulgence of heavy industry.
Book Synopsis The Geography of Survival by : Boris Komarov
Download or read book The Geography of Survival written by Boris Komarov and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1994 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boris Komarov is the name under which Ze'ev Wolfson published his 1979 The Destruction of Nature in the Soviet Union in the west after he could not get it published in Moscow. He based his criticisms on his observations as an employee of the Soviet Department of Nature Preserves. Here he focuses on how aridization, the loss of natural soil, destruction of fresh water resources, and other ecological problems move across the landscape without regard to national boundaries. His examples are the migrating environmental degradations spawned by oil and gas production in Siberia and cotton production in the Aral basin. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Seven Years that Changed the World by : Archie Brown
Download or read book Seven Years that Changed the World written by Archie Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rigorously argued and lively interpretation of the transformation of the Soviet system, written by a leading authority on Soviet politics. This thoroughly researched book draws on new archival sources and puts perestroika in fresh perspective.
Book Synopsis Democracy, Ecological Integrity and International Law by : Klaus Bosselmann
Download or read book Democracy, Ecological Integrity and International Law written by Klaus Bosselmann and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy, Ecological Integrity and International Law is the latest product of research by the Global Ecological Integrity Group (www.globalecointegrity.net), an organisation that has been meeting annually since 1992 to discuss scientific, philosophical, political and legal aspects of ecological integrity. This collection examines various aspects of governance from the standpoint of integrity: from democracy, to forms of Native governance, from globalization and neocolonialism to specific human rights to food, water and climate.
Book Synopsis The Geography of Survival by : Ze'ev Wolfson
Download or read book The Geography of Survival written by Ze'ev Wolfson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989 a Soviet environmental expert writer under the pseudonym Boris Komarov startled the world. His book "The Destruction of Nature in the Soviet Union", was both a chilling description of the environmental devastation in the Soviet Union and an indictment of the official policy and public apathy that allows it to be perpetuated. Today Boris Komarov writes freely under his own name - Ze'ev Wolfson. But the ecological crisis he documents has only become more severe, more widespread, more deadly. In "The Geography of Survival" Wolfson speaks out in unmistakable terms about the world's choice to embrace the cause of our collective survival or to let desertisation, pollution, disaster, famine, epidemic, and war work their own solution.
Book Synopsis Environmental Crises in Central Asia by : Eric Freedman
Download or read book Environmental Crises in Central Asia written by Eric Freedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental conditions do not exist in a vacuum. They are influenced by science, politics, history, public policy, culture, economics, public attitudes, and competing priorities, as well as past human decisions. In the case of Central Asia, such Soviet-era decisions include irrigation systems and physical infrastructure that are now crumbling, mine tailings that leach pollutants into soil and groundwater, and abandoned factories that are physically decrepit and contaminated with toxic chemicals. Environmental Crises in Central Asia highlights major environmental challenges confronting the region’s former Soviet republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. They include threats to the Caspian and Aral seas, the impact of climate change on glaciers, desertification, deforestation, destruction of habitat and biodiversity, radioactive and hazardous wastes, water quality and supply, energy exploration and development, pesticides and food security, and environmental health. The ramifications of these challenges cross national borders and may affect economic, political, and cultural relationships on a vast geographic scale. At the same time, the region’s five governments have demonstrated little resolve to address these complex challenges. This book is a valuable multi-disciplinary resource for academics, scholars, and policymakers in environmental sciences, geography, political science, natural resources, mass communications, public health, and economics.
Book Synopsis Environmental Status Reports: USSR by : IUCN East European Programme
Download or read book Environmental Status Reports: USSR written by IUCN East European Programme and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1991 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Little Corner of Freedom by : Douglas R. Weiner
Download or read book A Little Corner of Freedom written by Douglas R. Weiner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of environmental activism under Stalin and beyond, and the movement of scientific societies, raises fundamental questions about the Soviet political system and known Soviet practices.
Book Synopsis Ecology & Perestroĭka by : Eric Green
Download or read book Ecology & Perestroĭka written by Eric Green and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia by : Philip Boobbyer
Download or read book Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia written by Philip Boobbyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book embraces the political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Soviet Russia. Providing a useful perspective of Putin’s Russia, and with a strong historical and religious background, the book: looks at the changing features of the Soviet ideology from Lenin to Stalin, and the moral universe of Stalin's time explores the history of the moral thinking of the dissident intelligentsia examines the moral dimension of Soviet dissent amongst dissidents of both religious and secular persuasions, and includes biographical material explores the ethical assumptions of the perestroika era, firstly amongst Communist leaders, and then in the emerging democratic and national forces.
Book Synopsis Environmental Management in the Soviet Union by : Philip R. Pryde
Download or read book Environmental Management in the Soviet Union written by Philip R. Pryde and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1991-07-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of Soviet environmental problems and their management, the author examines the pervasive nature of biosphere disruption and environmental contaminants in the country. He discusses the extent to which they are damaging the Soviet populace and the resource base upon which it depends.
Book Synopsis Technology, Culture and Development by : James P. Scanlan
Download or read book Technology, Culture and Development written by James P. Scanlan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although scholars have devoted much attention to the impact of technology on society, they have tended to slight the question of how technology is affected by social systems. The authors of this volume take precisely this approach in their examination of the "Soviet model" of development. The book surveys the history and current state of science and technology in the USSR and its former satellites. It then looks at the economic environment for technological innovation and examines the impact of the "energy shock" in the transitional economies of the region. Finally, it discusses the ecological devastation of the USSR and Eastern Europe, its connection with the "Soviet model" and the prospects for remediation. The central argument of the book is that the cultural and social factors and the legacy of the Soviet model will inevitable figure in the reconstruction of the East.
Book Synopsis Disaster by Design by : Michael R. Edelstein
Download or read book Disaster by Design written by Michael R. Edelstein and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the impacts of the Aral Sea disaster; disappearance of what was the world's fourth largest inland body of water. It argues this was the result of deliberate policy decisions. This volume is essential reading for everyone concerned with averting environmental disaster and in creating livable, sustainable communities.
