Saving Nature Under Socialism
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Saving Nature Under Socialism

Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968 – 1990

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Saving Nature Under Socialism

Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968 – 1990

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When East Germany collapsed in 1989–1990, outside observers were shocked to learn the extent of environmental devastation that existed there. The communist dictatorship, however, had sought to confront environmental issues since at least the 1960s. Through an analysis of official and oppositional sources, Saving Nature Under Socialism complicates attitudes toward the environment in East Germany by tracing both domestic and transnational engagement with nature and pollution. The communist dictatorship limited opportunities for protest, so officials and activists looked abroad to countries such as Poland and West Germany for inspiration and support. Julia Ault outlines the evolution of environmental policy and protest in East Germany and shows how East Germans responded to local degradation as well as to an international moment of environmental reckoning in the 1970s and 1980s. The example of East Germany thus challenges and broadens our understanding of the 'greening' of post-war Europe, and illuminates a larger, central European understanding of connection across the Iron Curtain.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781009020503
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia europea

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. List of Abbreviations
  11. Introduction
  12. Chapter 1 Balancing Economy and Ecology: Building toward Environmental Protection, 1945–1970
  13. Chapter 2 “Socialist Environmentalism”: Between Ideal and Practice, 1971–1982
  14. Chapter 3 Church, Faith, and Nature: An Alternative Environmentalism, 1972–1983
  15. Chapter 4 Intertwining Environmentalisms: Transboundary Pollution and Protest in Central Europe
  16. Chapter 5 Coming Out From Behind the Cloud: Environmentalism after Chernobyl
  17. Chapter 6 Growing Together? The Environment in the Collapse of Communism
  18. Conclusion
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index