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Environmentalism in Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Paula Garb
Paula Garb*
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University of California (Irvine)
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The grassroots environmental movement of the late 1980s in the former Soviet Union played a key role in reform politics, making or breaking candidates in the 1989–1990 contested local elections across the nation. The collapse of the Soviet Union, the social and economic crises in its successor states were significant factors in the decline and shifting focus of this mass movement. The purpose of this study is to examine the history, ideology and the current direction of Russian environmentalism in the context of the former Soviet Union, and to see how it is being reshaped in Russia today.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 23 , Issue 4: Twentieth Anniversary Issue , December 1995, pp. 687 - 696
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Copyright © 1995 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe and ex-USSR, Inc 

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