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Author: Douglas Weiner
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.00cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780822957331
ISBN 10: 0822957337
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 21 July 2000
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Douglas R. Weiner treats conservation--the main topic of this book--as a complex phenomenon molded by government policies, scientific ideas, cultural values, and ideological tenets. He concentrates on the Soviet period from the October Revolution to the consolidation of Stalinist rule in the mid-1930s. . . . Thoroughly documented and firmly integrated, this book is a major contribution to the history of Soviet science, politics, and culture. --American Historical Review
Douglas R. Weiner treats conservation the main topic of this book as a complex phenomenon molded by government policies, scientific ideas, cultural values, and ideological tenets. He concentrates on the Soviet period from the October Revolution to the consolidation of Stalinist rule in the mid-1930s. . . . Thoroughly documented and firmly integrated, this book is a major contribution to the history of Soviet science, politics, and culture. --American Historical Review
Douglas R. Weiner treats conservation--the main topic of this book--as a complex phenomenon molded by government policies, scientific ideas, cultural values, and ideological tenets. He concentrates on the Soviet period from the October Revolution to the consolidation of Stalinist rule in the mid-1930s. . . . Thoroughly documented and firmly integrated, this book is a major contribution to the history of Soviet science, politics, and culture. --American Historical Review
Douglas R. Weiner treats conservation--the main topic of this book--as a complex phenomenon molded by government policies, scientific ideas, cultural values, and ideological tenets. He concentrates on the Soviet period from the October Revolution to the consolidation of Stalinist rule in the mid-1930s. . . . Thoroughly documented and firmly integrated, this book is a major contribution to the history of Soviet science, politics, and culture. <br> --American Historical Review
Author Information
Douglas R. Weiner is professor of history at the University of Arizona, and the author of A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection from Stalin to Gorbachev. He was awarded the book prize of the Moscow Society of Naturalists, Russia's oldest s
