Ecocide in the USSR; Health and Nature Under Siege
Mark Strassman (Photograph of Friendly) New York: Basic Books, 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [1] 376, [4] pages. Color endpaper maps. Footnotes. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Inscribed on the half-title page by the co-author (Friendly). This inscription reads For Cathy and Sam Gentle readers, accomplished writers, and the best of friends. Alfred Friendly Jr. This work studies of the relationship between pollution and health in the Soviet Union. Foreword by Lester Brown. A look at the impending health and environmental disasters in the Soviet Union discusses the shortage of appropriate surgical instruments, the dangerous concentration of pollution in some cities, the prevalent use of the banned pesticide DDT, and more. Murray Feshbach (August 8, 1929 – October 25, 2019) was an American scholar focusing on the demographics of the Soviet Union and demographics of Russia, including population, health, and environment. He was a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Alfred Friendly, Jr. American, b. 1938. Genres: Documentaries/Reportage, Writing/Journalism. Career: New York Times, NYC, correspondent; Newsweek, NYC, worked as correspondent and bureau chief in Moscow. Writer on health and environmental issues for the U.S. Congress and the World Bank. Publications: (with R.L. Goldfarb) Crime and Publicity: The Impact of News on the Administration of Justice, 1967; (ed. with E. Yankelevich) Andrei D. Sakharov, Alarm and Hope, 1978; (with M. Feshbach) Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature under Siege, 1992; Editor, Gribkov, Anatoli I., and William Y. Smith, Operation ANADYR: U.S. and Soviet Generals Recount the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1994. Derived from an article in The Library Journal by Robert Decker, Los Angeles. Demographer Feshbach and journalist Friendly show how 70 years of unregulated industrial pollution have both devastated the Soviet environment and created a host of medical problems that Russia's primitive health service is inadequate to handle. Having turned a vast proportion of its farmland and forests, lakes, and rivers into toxic waste dumps, Russia now has neither the technology nor the money to clean up Chernobyl and the Aral Sea, not to mention the many less-famous disaster areas documented here. The authors conclude there will be no real progress short of a total cultural transformation. Well written, this will interest many well-informed readers. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Soviet Union, Chernobyl, Gorbachev, Pollution, Public Health, Environment, Communism, Ecology
ISBN: 0465016642
[Book #47493]
Price: $125.00