A Little Corner of Freedom
Subtitle: Russian Nature Protection from Stalin to Gorbachev
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 7, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9780520232136
Subjects: Central government policies; Conservation of the environment; Freedom of information & freedom of speech; Marxism & Communism; Political structure & processes; Politics / Current Events; History; History: World; Russia; Development - Sustainable Development; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Political History; History / Former Soviet Republics; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union
First sentence: Some who have reflected on the prehistory of Russian environmentalism, such as the geologist Pavel Vasil'evich Florenskii, a former member of KIuBZ (the Young Biologists' Circle of the Moscow Zoo), believe that the environmentalist ethos draws its source far back in time, from the traditions of brotherhood that flourished in Pushkin's day at the Tsarskoe Selo Lvcee, which then were revived in the traditions of the St. Petersburg University studenchestvo (radical student subculture).