Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation, and Cultural Revolution in Soviet RussiaUniversity of Pittsburgh Pre, 15 ago 2000 - 324 páginas Models of Nature studies the early and turbulent years of the Soviet conservation movement from the October Revolution to the mid-1930s—Lenin's rule to the rise of Stalin. This new edition includes an afterword by the author that reflects upon the study's impact and discusses advances in the field since the book was first published. |
Índice
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The Conservation Congress of 1929 | 85 |
The Cultural Revolution Comes to Biology | 121 |
Conservation without Ecology Nature Protection in the Age of Lysenko | 211 |
Conclusion | 229 |
Afterword to the Paperback Edition | 239 |
APPENDICES | 251 |
Zapovedniki of the USSR in 1933 | 256 |
ACRONYMS | 261 |
GLOSSARY | 263 |
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY | 264 |
Protective Coloration | 134 |
Conservation and the FiveYear Plan | 149 |
The Great Transformation of Nature | 164 |
Engineers of Nature | 178 |
The First AllUnion Conservation Congress | 194 |
NOTES | 266 |
SELECTED BIBILIOGRAPHY | 301 |
INDEX | 319 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation, and Cultural Revolution in Soviet ... Douglas R. Weiner Vista de fragmentos - 1988 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 131 - science" against the possibility and expediency of creating large grain factories of fifty thousand to one hundred thousand hectares each have collapsed and crumbled into dust. Practice has refuted the objections of "science...
Página 9 - KHROUSCHOV : Cut forests, when it is a matter of urgency, you may, but it is time to stop destroying them. Every Russian forest is cracking under the axe, millions of trees are perishing, the abodes of beasts and birds are being ravaged, rivers are becoming shallow and drying up, wonderful landscapes are disappearing without leaving a trace; and all this because lazy man has not got the sense to stoop to pick up fuel from the ground. One must be a barbarian...
Página 269 - Lenin's Contribution to Law: The Case of Protection and Preservation of the Natural Environment," in Lenin and Leninism: State, Law, and Society, ed.
Página 38 - no previous government in history was so openly and energetically in favor of science
Página 173 - ... Turkish tribes of the Caucasus, the Karachais, and Balkarians, by V. Levin and V. Bunak, both of MGU. c. Kumyks and Kazakhs of the Volga area (Povolzhe) by G. Debets and T. Trofimova. d. Azerbaidzhan Turks by Debets, lArkho, and NI Anserov. e. Mountain Tatars of the Crimea by IA. Roginskii. 9. The former Society for the Study of the Urals, Siberia, and the Far East collected and preserved materials on the anthropology and demography of the Shortsi, Teleuts, nationalities of the Oirot Autonomous...
Página 169 - ... the Anokhin was already raising waves as it passed down canal No. 182 and the so recently impassable River Vyg. On deck, wicker armchairs. Three members of the Politburo — Stalin, Voroshilov and Kirov— are talking. They joke, laugh, smoke. The deck rolls slightly; the waves rise behind. . . . Stalin holds a pencil. Before him lies a map of the region. Deserted shores. Remote villages. Virgin soil, covered with boulders. Primeval forests. Too much forest as a matter of fact; it covers the...
Página viii - In what will be a surprise to many, through the early 1930s the Soviet Union was on the cutting edge of conservation theory and practice.
Página 87 - conservation" cannot find a place in the work plan of Soviet youth. . . . The naked idea of preservationism is organically alien to active youth and in particular to Soviet youth, seized . . . with the enthusiasm of socialist construction and...
Página 229 - Repelled by modern industrial society — capitalist or socialist — its adherents sought to return to an idealized, organic, agrarian golden age when humanity had not yet despoiled the earth.
Página 214 - Rather, he proposed a view of the biocenosis as a system of species whose mutual, historical adaptation to each other and to the abiotic environment they shared (and created) was dialectical, unplanned, unpredictable, and unduplicatable. The development of the biocenosis, like a kaleidoscope, was the product of the emergence of new evolutionary facts through this unending flux of interactions.
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