Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Environmentalism, Environmental Policy, Capitalism, and Communism / Astrid Mignon Kirchhof and J. R. McNeill
PART I. Communist and Capitalist Systems Revisited: A Comparison of Their Environmental Politics
1. Building a Soviet Eco-Power while Looking at the Capitalist World: The Rise of Technocratic Environmentalism in Russian Water Controversies, 1957–1989 / Laurent Coumel
2. Water Pollution and Protection in the Lithuanian Soviet Republic / Anolda Cetkauskaite and Simo Laakkonen
3. The Fallout of Chernobyl: The Emergence of an Environmental Movement in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic / Tetiana Perga
4. Keeping the Air Clean?: Environmental Policy, Utility Companies, and Social Movements in West Germany since the 1970s / Hendrik Ehrhardt
5. From Anti-Nuke to Ökopax: 1970s Anti-Reactor Activism and the Emergence of West Germany's Mass Movement for Peace / Stephen Milder
6. An Unguided Boom: Environmental Policies of Cold War Italy / Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
7. Nuclear-Free Montana: Grassroots Environmentalism and Montana's Antinuclear Initiatives / Brian James Leech
PART II. The Porous Iron Curtain
8. Building a Socialist Environment: Czechoslovak Environmental Policy from the 1960s to the 1980s / Eagle Glassheim
9. Protesting Pollution: Environmental Activism in East Germany and Poland, 1980–1990 / Julia E. Ault
10. About Environmental Policy in Socialist Yugoslavia / Hrvoje Petrić
11. "It Makes No Sense to Work against Nature": Cold War Modernization in West German Agriculture / Scott Moranda
PART III. Environmentalism and Détente?
12. An American Miracle in the Desert: Environmental Crisis and Nuclear-Powered Desalination in the Middle East / Jacob Darwin Hamblin
13. East Germany's Fight for Recognition as a Sovereign State: Environmental Diplomacy as Strategy in Cold War Politics / Astrid Mignon Kirchhof
Notes
Contributors
Index