Ecocide in the USSR: Health And Nature Under Siege

by Murray Feshbach

A dissection of the Soviet Union's legacy of health and environmental disaster, this book examines a former country of 103 cities - home to 70 million people - where the air is unfit to breathe and pollution fouls 75 percent of the water.

Genres: History, Economics, Ecology

400 pages, Paperback

First published June 19, 1993

Reviews

[Vanessa Bittner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dated but voluminous statistics; optimistic outlook in contrast to subsequent and current events. Still a powerful documentation of how a country and the planet are destroyed when environmental and health protection are ignored.