In the past two decades, environmental pollution and natural
resource shortages have evoked increasing concern in the Soviet
Union and Eastern Europe. The emerging ecological crisis has
challenged many common assumptions in the Soviet bloc, as in the
West. This book provides, for the first time, a detailed and
comprehensive analysis of the ecology debate in the USSR and its
highly industrialized ally, the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
Based on a thorough examination of the Soviet and GDR sources, Dr.
DeBardeleben explores the authorities' attempts to explain the
problem to their populations. She also examines the viewpoints of
scientists, writers, and scholars, with special attention to
economic dimensions of the ecology debate. The study reveals the
increasing sophistication of specialists in influencing public
policy by adapting official values to support their positions.
Through comparison of the Soviet and East German cases, the study
clarifies the impact of natural resource endowment and legitimacy
dilemmas on treatment of the ecology issue. The book demonstrates
that Marxist-Leninist values subtly affect Soviet and GDR
responses, but at the same time the environmental crisis is forcing
a reevaluation of some aspects of Marxist-Leninist theory and
ideology itself.
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