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  • Soviet Climate Change Science

    Domestic Debates, International Collaboration and Future Climates

    by Jonathan D. Oldfield, Vladimir Jankovic, Katja Doose, Nina Kruglikova, Denis J.B. Shaw, Julia Lajus ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
    Soviet Climate Change Science explores the character and range of Soviet contributions to the emerging understanding of large-scale anthropogenic climate change during the post-1945 period. More specifically, it examines the role of Soviet scientists in helping to shape the debate, both domestically and on the international stage, and with a particular focus on the period 1960s to the 1980s.The ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • The Development of Russian Environmental Thought

    Scientific and Geographical Perspectives on the Natural Environment

    by Jonathan Oldfield, Denis Shaw ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the very rich thinking about environmental issues which has grown up in Russia since the nineteenth century, a body of knowledge and thought which is not well known to Western scholars and environmentalists. It shows how in the late nineteenth century there emerged in Russia distinct and strongly articulated representations of the earth’s physical ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • The Soviet Union and Global Environmental Change

    Modifying the Biosphere and Conceptualizing Society-Nature Interaction

    by Jonathan D. Oldfield ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
    This book argues that the Soviet Union was a highly influential actor in furthering understandings of society-nature interaction on the international stage and played a key role in helping to shape, conceptualize and assess the relationship between humankind and the Earth system. It considers how humankind’s capacity to affect physical and biological systems at a global scale was acknowledged and ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Russian Nature

    Exploring the Environmental Consequences of Societal Change

    by Jonathan D. Oldfield ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice
    Jonathan D Oldfield provides a detailed assessment of the changing relationship between Russian society and the wider environment since the fall of the Soviet Union. Through this, he highlights the need to critically evaluate assumptions regarding the post-Soviet environment, in order to move beyond generalization and engage meaningfully with the particularities of Russia's contemporary ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

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  • Facing the Anthropocene

    Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System

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  • Class Theory and History

    Capitalism and Communism in the USSR

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    Class Theory and History takes an ambitious and ground-breaking look at the entire history of the Soviet Union and presents a new kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth, evolution, and death in class terms. Utilizing the class analytics they have developed over the last three decades, resnick and Wolff formulate the most fully developed economic theory of communism now ... Read more

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  • Tracing the Atom

    Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia

    Edited by Susanne Bauer, Tanja Penter ...
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  • The Power of Systems

    How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World

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