TY - BOOK ID - 67140420 TI - An environmental history of Russia PY - 2013 SN - 9780521689724 9781139021043 9780521869584 9781107341272 1107341272 1139021044 0521869587 0521689724 1107357144 1107347521 1107345022 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Human ecology KW - Ethnoecology KW - Environmental degradation KW - Environmental policy KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Traditional ecological knowledge KW - Environment and state KW - Environmental control KW - Environmental management KW - Environmental protection KW - Environmental quality KW - State and environment KW - Environmental auditing KW - Degradation, Environmental KW - Destruction, Environmental KW - Deterioration, Environmental KW - Environmental destruction KW - Environmental deterioration KW - Natural disasters KW - Ecology KW - Environment, Human KW - Human beings KW - Human environment KW - Ecological engineering KW - Human geography KW - Nature KW - History. KW - Government policy KW - Social aspects KW - Effect of environment on KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Russian Federation KW - Rossiyskaya Federatsiya KW - Rossiya (Federation) KW - Rossii︠a︡ (Federation) KW - Российская Федерация KW - Rossiĭskai︠a︡ Federat︠s︡ii︠a︡ KW - Російська Федерація KW - Rosiĭsʹka Federat︠s︡ii︠a︡ KW - Federazione della Russia KW - Russische Föderation KW - RF KW - Federation of Russia KW - Urysye Federat︠s︡ie KW - Правительство России KW - Pravitelʹstvo Rossii KW - Правительство Российской Федерации KW - Pravitelʹstvo Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii KW - Правительство РФ KW - Pravitelʹstvo RF KW - Rosja (Federation) KW - O-lo-ssu (Federation) KW - Roshia Renpō KW - Federazione russa KW - OKhU KW - Orosyn Kholboony Uls KW - Russian S.F.S.R. KW - Environmental conditions. KW - Aboriginal peoples KW - Aborigines KW - Adivasis KW - Indigenous populations KW - Native peoples KW - Native races KW - Ethnology KW - Eluosi (Federation) KW - 俄罗斯 (Federation) KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - RF (Russian Federation) KW - Россия (Federation) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67140420 AB - 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. ER -