Environmental Catastrophe in the Soviet Union

The dramatic revelations of environmental catastrophe in the Soviet Union made during the late 1980s and early 1990s were a driving force behind reform in, and later the demise of the communist party-state.

Continuing Dilemmas in Independent Republics

But while the Union no longer exists, the independent republics confront the same dilemmas that plagued the Soviet state: Will the goal of econ