Download or read book Troubled Lands written by D. J. Peterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. But while the Union no longer exists, the independent republics confront the same dilemmas that plagued the Soviet state: Will the goal of econ