Author: Moran, Dominique

Source: Environment and History, Volume 10, Number 1, February 2004 , pp. 83-105(23)

Publisher: White Horse Press

Abstract:

This paper examines the history of forestry in the Russian North through a study area in the North Urals. The relationships between the local leskhozy (forestry enterprises) and the lesniki (forestry workers) and the environment are contrasted. The paper explores four key aspects: exile, planned production, decline in rural population and environmental problems which characterised the Soviet period, and links these to conditions in the region post-1991, drawing on archival sources, contemporary accounts from the Soviet period and fieldwork in the study area.

Keywords: Soviet forestry; forced labour; planning; Soviet environmental policy

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2004-02-01

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