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Article: The Soviet Environment: Problems, Policies, and Politics. (book reviews)
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- Environment
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- May 1, 1994
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This book's 14 essays by Western and Soviet scholars were originally presented at the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies in Harrogate, England, in 1990. Marshall Goldman, Philip Pryde, Charles Zeigler, and Joan Debardeleben examine how serious environmental degradation, when combined with then-president Gorbachev's glasnost, unleashed political movements and ethnic nationalisms that undermined the Soviet state. Regional environmental problems are addressed in articles by Victor Mote (the ...