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Author: Alan D. Roe (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, West Virginia University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 15.70cm
Weight: 0.680kg
ISBN: 9780190914554
ISBN 10: 0190914556
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 05 June 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Alan Roe reconstructs in close detail the history of national parks in Soviet and post-Soviet history. This sweeping history features romantics, rebels, ideologues, economic pragmatists, champions and opponents of nature protection. Modulating among local, federal, and international registers, Roe's account reveals how positioning themselves as part of a global environmental movement could be both an asset and liability for Soviet/Russian environmentalists. Into Russian Nature haunts the reader with the ways in which the Soviet/Russian history of nature protection departs from and shares with that history in the West. -- Erika Monahan, Author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia This is a fascinating and sobering account of efforts to connect recreation and conservation in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. Roe offers important perspectives on Russians' engagement with what Americans would call 'backcountry, ' relating how a Russian version of the 'wilderness debate' has played out and how Russia's vast and varied terrain continues to inspire deep love and fierce protection. -- Jane Costlow, Author of Heart-Pine Russia: Walking and Writing the Nineteenth-Century Forest Into Russian Nature tells the fascinating and previously unexamined story of Russia's national parks. With vibrant and lucid prose, it explores the history of Soviet environmentalism, tourism, and the culture of twentieth-century science and nature protection. Alan Roe has written the kind of book that we all wish we could produce: thoughtful and impressive analysis of a topic of global importance, built on unparalleled research and a dazzling array of sources. -- Nicholas Breyfogle, Editor of Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History Writing with contagious passion and remarkable thoroughness, Alan Roe tells the neglected history of national parks in Russia. While policy makers in the country treated national parks as an afterthought instead of a 'best idea, ' Russian conservationists projected deep hopes onto these protected territories and experienced bitter disappointments over them. Into Russian Nature offers a vital contribution to the environmental history of Russia and understandings of national parks globally. -- Andy Bruno, Northern Illinois University
"""Alan Roe reconstructs in close detail the history of national parks in Soviet and post-Soviet history. This sweeping history features romantics, rebels, ideologues, economic pragmatists, champions and opponents of nature protection. Modulating among local, federal, and international registers, Roe's account reveals how positioning themselves as part of a global environmental movement could be both an asset and liability for Soviet/Russian environmentalists. Into Russian Nature haunts the reader with the ways in which the Soviet/Russian history of nature protection departs from and shares with that history in the West."" -- Erika Monahan, Author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia ""This is a fascinating and sobering account of efforts to connect recreation and conservation in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. Roe offers important perspectives on Russians' engagement with what Americans would call 'backcountry,' relating how a Russian version of the 'wilderness debate' has played out and how Russia's vast and varied terrain continues to inspire deep love and fierce protection."" -- Jane Costlow, Author of Heart-Pine Russia: Walking and Writing the Nineteenth-Century Forest ""Into Russian Nature tells the fascinating and previously unexamined story of Russia's national parks. With vibrant and lucid prose, it explores the history of Soviet environmentalism, tourism, and the culture of twentieth-century science and nature protection. Alan Roe has written the kind of book that we all wish we could produce: thoughtful and impressive analysis of a topic of global importance, built on unparalleled research and a dazzling array of sources."" -- Nicholas Breyfogle, Editor of Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet History ""Writing with contagious passion and remarkable thoroughness, Alan Roe tells the neglected history of national parks in Russia. While policy makers in the country treated national parks as an afterthought instead of a 'best idea,' Russian conservationists projected deep hopes onto these protected territories and experienced bitter disappointments over them. Into Russian Nature offers a vital contribution to the environmental history of Russia and understandings of national parks globally."" -- Andy Bruno, Northern Illinois University"
Author Information
Alan D. Roe is a lecturer in history at West Virginia University.
