1st Edition
The Environment And Marxismleninism The Soviet And East German Experience
By Joan Debardeleben
Copyright 1985
350 Pages
by
Routledge
350 Pages
by
Routledge
338 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the past two decades, environmental pollution and natural resource shortages have evoked increasing concern in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The emerging ecological crisis has challenged many common assumptions in the Soviet bloc, as in the West. This book provides, for the first time, a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the ecology debate in the USSR and its highly industrialized... Read more
Westview Special Studies -- Preface -- Ideology, Theory, and the Environment -- Soviet Studies and Ecology -- Political Legitimation and Environmental Problems -- Philosophical, Theoretical, and Theological Perspectives -- Science, Scientists, and Environmental Research -- Economics and the Environment -- The Political-Economic Context -- Economic Growth and the Environment -- Macro-Economic Questions: National Accounting and Territorial Planning -- Natural Resource Pricing and the Labor Theory of Value -- Conclusions
Biography
Dr. Joan DeBardeleben is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. Currently she is coauthoring a book on nuclear power safety policy in the USSR and GDR.
