National parks are perhaps the most recognized environmental protection institution in the world and have long attracted the interest of historians. This is the first academic work on Russian national parks. It spans from the years before the Great October Revolution to the present and examines movements to establish national parks from European Russia to Siberia and the Far East. It is a story of grandiose visions in which Russian environmentalists conceived of ways to alter the state's relationship to nature and of demoralizing disappointment when the lofty ambitions of different park visionaries fell far short of their hopes.…mehr
National parks are perhaps the most recognized environmental protection institution in the world and have long attracted the interest of historians. This is the first academic work on Russian national parks. It spans from the years before the Great October Revolution to the present and examines movements to establish national parks from European Russia to Siberia and the Far East. It is a story of grandiose visions in which Russian environmentalists conceived of ways to alter the state's relationship to nature and of demoralizing disappointment when the lofty ambitions of different park visionaries fell far short of their hopes.
Alan D. Roe is a lecturer in history at West Virginia University.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Part I * Chapter 1: For Science or Tourism? Protected Territories Before World War II * Chapter 2: Taking the "Best" from the West? The Beginnings of the Soviet National Park Movement * Chapter 3: Transformative Visions during the Brezhnev Era * Chapter 4: Disappointments and the Persistence of Grandiose Visions * Part II * Chapter 5: The "Shield" of the Sacred Sea: National Parks around Lake Baikal * Chapter 6: Paddling Upstream: Samara Bend National Park and the Transformation of Citizen "Environmentalism" from Soviet to Post-Soviet Society * Chapter 7: Protecting the Pechoran Alps? The Unmet Promise of Iugyd Va National Park in the Circumpolar Urals * Chapter 8: The Vision and the Reality in the Taiga of Karelia and the Arkhangelsk Oblast: Oleg Cherviakov and Vodlozero National Park * Part III * Chapter 9: The Crisis of National Parks in the 1990s * Conclusion: Russia's Forgotten Parks and the Crisis of Environmental Protection in the Russian Federation * Notes * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Part I * Chapter 1: For Science or Tourism? Protected Territories Before World War II * Chapter 2: Taking the "Best" from the West? The Beginnings of the Soviet National Park Movement * Chapter 3: Transformative Visions during the Brezhnev Era * Chapter 4: Disappointments and the Persistence of Grandiose Visions * Part II * Chapter 5: The "Shield" of the Sacred Sea: National Parks around Lake Baikal * Chapter 6: Paddling Upstream: Samara Bend National Park and the Transformation of Citizen "Environmentalism" from Soviet to Post-Soviet Society * Chapter 7: Protecting the Pechoran Alps? The Unmet Promise of Iugyd Va National Park in the Circumpolar Urals * Chapter 8: The Vision and the Reality in the Taiga of Karelia and the Arkhangelsk Oblast: Oleg Cherviakov and Vodlozero National Park * Part III * Chapter 9: The Crisis of National Parks in the 1990s * Conclusion: Russia's Forgotten Parks and the Crisis of Environmental Protection in the Russian Federation * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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