Saving nature under socialism : transnational environmentalism in East Germany, 1968-1990 / Julia E. Ault, University of Utah

Zusammenfassung: "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."--(Publisher's website, viewed on October 5, 2022.)

Bibliographische Detailangaben
VerfasserIn: Ault, Julia E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022
Ausgabe:First paperback edition
Schriftenreihe:New studies in European history
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300 |a xiii, 262 pages : illustrations, 1 map 
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490 1 |a New studies in European history 
500 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-257) and index 
500 |a Online version Ault, Julia E.: Saving nature under socialism. -Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022., 9781009003810. 
505 1 |a Introduction -- Balancing economy and ecology : building toward environmental protection, 1945-1970 -- "Socialist environmentalism" : between ideal and practice, 1971-1982 -- Church, faith, and nature : an alternative environmentalism, 1972-1983 -- Intertwining environmentalisms : transboundary pollution and protest in Central Europe -- Coming out from behind the cloud : environmentalism after Chernobyl -- Growing together? : the environment in the collapse of communism -- Conclusion. 
520 |a Zusammenfassung: "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."--(Publisher's website, viewed on October 5, 2022.) 
650 4 |a Umwelt 
650 4 |a Umweltbewusstsein 
650 4 |a Deutschland 
650 4 |a DDR 
650 4 |a Deutsche Demokratische Republik 
650 4 |a Naturschutz 
650 4 |a Umweltschutz 
650 4 |a Umweltpolitik 
650 4 |a Geschichte 1968-1990 
650 4 |a Transnationalismus 
099 1 |a 20230328