The Environmental Record of the Soviet Union

A. Gare

DOI:10.1080/10455750208565489

Corpus ID: 144372855

The Environmental Record of the Soviet Union

@article{Gare2002TheER,
  title={The Environmental Record of the Soviet Union},
  author={A. Gare},
  journal={Capitalism Nature Socialism},
  year={2002},
  volume={13},
  pages={52 - 72}
}

A. Gare
Published 2002
Sociology
Capitalism Nature Socialism

It is now clear that one of the legacies of the Soviet Union was a severely degraded environment. This seems to prove that communism offered no solution to the environmental destructiveness of a capitalist economy. However, what is also becoming clear is that within the Soviet Union there had been a strong environmental movement. This movement was the surviving remnant of something far greater. It was engendered by the Bolshevik revolution as part of the broader tradition of the left-wing… Expand

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