A revolution in the forests? Forest conversation in Soviet Russia, 1917-1925 From: Environmental History | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Bonhomme, Brian | Copyright Environmental History Jul 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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"If our forest affairs continue to be run [as they have been in recent times] then nothing will be left, and where there was forest will be only open steppe. What will future generations say? They'll say: there's cultured people for you! Cultured peoples previously made it so that where there had once been steppe there are now gardens. But the communists? What did they do? Where once there were gardens, now there is empty steppe."1

-Comrade Smirnov, speaking to ...

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