The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology

Kochetkova, Elena

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-02-20
  • 售價: $1,580
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,501
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 258
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262547457
  • ISBN-13: 9780262547451
  • 相關分類: 嵌入式系統
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How the Soviet forestry industry developed a unique form of industrial ecology--a commonsense approach toward natural resources for the economy and society.

In The Green Power of Socialism, Elena Kochetkova examines the relationship between nature and humans under state socialism by looking at the industrial role of Soviet forests. The book explores evolving Soviet policies of wood consumption, discussing how professionals working in the forestry industry of the Soviet state viewed the present and future of forests by considering them both a natural resource and a trove of industrial material. When faced with the prospect of wood shortages, these specialists came to develop new industry-ecology paradigms. Kochetkova looks at the materiality of Soviet industry through forests and wood to show how, paradoxically, industrial ecology emerged and developed as a by-product of the Soviet industrialization project.

The Green Power of Socialism also discusses how post-Soviet industry has abandoned these socialist practices and the idea of nature as a complicated ecosystem that provides a crucial service to society. Emphasizing the technological and environmental impacts of the Cold War, Kochetkova critically reconsiders two explanatory models that have become dominant in the historiography of Soviet approaches to nature over the last decades--ecocide and environmentalism. Within the context of the current environmental crisis, the book invites readers to reevaluate state socialism as a complex phenomenon with sophisticated interactions between nature and industry. In so doing, it contributes a fresh perspective on the activities of socialist experts and their view of nature, shedding light on Soviet state industrial and environmental policy and its continuing legacy in the present day.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

蘇聯林業如何發展出一種獨特的工業生態學──一種對經濟和社會的自然資源採取常識方法的方式。

在《社會主義的綠色力量》一書中,Elena Kochetkova 通過探討蘇聯森林的工業角色,研究了國家社會主義下自然與人類之間的關係。該書探討了蘇聯木材消耗的不斷演變的政策,討論了蘇聯國家林業專業人員如何將森林視為自然資源和工業材料的寶庫,並考慮到森林的現在和未來。面對木材短缺的前景,這些專家們開始發展新的工業生態學範式。Kochetkova 通過森林和木材來研究蘇聯工業的物質性,以此顯示出,蘇聯工業化項目的副產品竟然是工業生態學的出現和發展。

《社會主義的綠色力量》還討論了後蘇聯工業如何放棄這些社會主義實踐以及將自然視為一個為社會提供重要服務的複雜生態系統的觀念。Kochetkova 強調了冷戰的技術和環境影響,對過去幾十年來關於蘇聯對待自然的解釋模型──生態災難和環保主義──進行了批判性重新評估。在當前環境危機的背景下,該書邀請讀者重新評估國家社會主義作為一個複雜現象,其中自然與工業之間存在著複雜的相互作用。通過這樣做,它為社會主義專家的活動和他們對自然的看法提供了新的視角,並闡明了蘇聯國家工業和環境政策以及其在當今的持續影響。

作者簡介

Elena Kochetkova is Associate Professor in Modern European Economic History at the Department of Archeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion at the University of Bergen. She served as a Secretary of the European Society of Environmental History from 2019 to 2021.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Elena Kochetkova是卑爾根大學考古學、歷史學、文化研究和宗教學系現代歐洲經濟史副教授。她在2019年至2021年期間擔任歐洲環境史學會秘書。