Ecology and the deep forces of perestroika

The political & institutional factors that contributed to the emergence of an ecological movement within the former USSR are investigated. An analysis of the movement's early stages revealed that ecological mobilization was designed to inculcate certain values within Soviet citizens rather...

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Published in:Diogenes (English ed.) 2002-07, Vol.49 (2), p.120-125
Main Author: Raviot, Jean-Robert
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communism
Ecology
Environmental Degradation
Environmental Movements
Environmentalism
Globalization
Mobilization
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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Summary:The political & institutional factors that contributed to the emergence of an ecological movement within the former USSR are investigated. An analysis of the movement's early stages revealed that ecological mobilization was designed to inculcate certain values within Soviet citizens rather than instruct them; however, it is argued that certain economic & sociological perspectives prevalent among the Soviet press altered the movement's nature during the early 1980s. The increase in public reports during the mid-1980s that depicted certain bureaucrats & ministers as responsible for the nation's ecological problems is then discussed. The extent to which environmentalism became imbued with certain ideological values in the attempt to reinvigorate communism's political & economic tenets is then considered. It is subsequently claimed that Soviet ecological mobilization was founded upon Soviet social scientific research on bourgeois societies conducted during the 1960s & 1970s; specifically, it is maintained that Soviet environmentalism was predicated upon the rejection of convergence theory, which stated that globalization processes would ultimately lead to the unification of capitalism & socialism. J. W. Parker
ISSN:0392-1921
1467-7695