Elena Kochetkova

The Green Power of Socialism

Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An environmental history of the Soviet forestry industry, showing how a utilitarian view of nature and the "rational" use of natural resources plays out in practice"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 136mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 246g
• ISBN-13: 9780262547451
• ISBN-10: 0262547457
• Artikelnr.: 68887018

Autorenporträt

Elena Kochetkova is Associate Professor in Modern European Economic History at the Department of Archeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion at the University of Bergen. She served as a Secretary of the European Society of Environmental History from 2019 to 2021.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
INTRODUCTION xiii
1 ALARM OVER THE FOREST 1
2 THE INDUSTRY EXPANDS INTO SIBERIA AND THE FAR EAST 29
3 THE QUEST FOR A NO-WASTE ECONOMY 69
4 REED BECOMES WOOD VALUE 103
5 THE PRESTIGE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES 131
EPILOGUE: THE CONTINUITY AND DISRUPTION OF GREEN INDUSTRY IN THE
(POST)-SOVIET ERA 157
NOTES 173
INDEX 205