Environment and Society in Soviet Estonia, 1960?1990

An Intimate Cultural History
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-53948-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 75 Seiten

Reihe: Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History

Russia's twenty-first-century military aggression has inspired calls for re-thinking the Soviet era and its aftermath – in particular, for drawing attention to the non-Russian parts of the (former) USSR. At the same time, the present era of anthropogenic climate change urges us to consider the global and planetary implications of local actions. This Element combines these two scholarly impulses to consider Soviet Estonian society between the 1960s and the 1980s: it investigates how natural environments and social ideas and circumstances were intertwined in fundamental ways. Estonian intellectuals cared deeply about their local environments, but they also took inspiration from environmentalist works of global importance. Various aspects of Estonian environmental thought and practices are analyzed as tied to local, intimate environments, while being at the same time connected to the global circulation of ideas, sometimes in dialogue with Soviet centers in Russia.

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Annus, Epp

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. 1965. Reverence for Life: bridging local and global environmental perspectives; 3. 1976. The forbidden sea and colonial violence; 4. 1969, 1869, 1988. The sound of the choir is the sound of the earth: the song, the land, the nation, and decolonization; 5. 1978. Urbanitis and limits to growth; 6. Conclusion. Thirty years later: bound to nature in a digital society.