A Little Corner of Freedom
  Acknowledgments

 collapse sectionIntroduction
 •"Scientific Public Opinion" in the Light of This Study
 •The Tightrope Walk of Scientific Public Opinion
 •Instrumental Shame, Protective Coloration, and Civic Honor
 •Scientific Activists versus Civic Activists
 •The Students
 •Stalinism as a System
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 •Scientific Public Opinion as a Social Category
 •The Tradition of the Studenchestvo
 •National-Patriotic Nature Protection
 •Middle-Level Officialdom
 •Ordinary Soviet People
 collapse sectionChapter Two—  Archipelago of Freedom
 •Vasilii Nikitich Makarov
 •The Purge at Askania-Nova
 •Olga Borisovna Lepeshinskaia's Investigation
 •The Conservation Congress of 1938
 •World War II
 •The Achievements of the Zapovedniki
 collapse sectionChapter Three—  The Road to "Liquidation":  Conservation in the Postwar Years
 •Saving the Zubr
 •The VOOP Congress of 1947
 •Leonid Leonov and the Green Plantings Society
 •The Alma-Atinskii Zapovednik Problem
 collapse sectionChapter Four— Zapovedniki in Peril, 1948–1950
 •The Stalin Plan for the Great Transformation of Nature
 •1949–1950: A Darkening Sky
  Chapter Five—  Liquidation:  The Second Phase, 1950
 collapse sectionChapter Six—  The Deluge, 1951
 •1951: Summer and Fall
 •Death and Rebirth
 •The Question of Causality
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 •VOKS
 •"On the Sidelines Where Important Tasks Are Concerned"
 •A Question of Merger
 •The Nature Almanac of 1951
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 •The All-Russian Society for the Promotion of the Protection of Nature and the Greening of Population Centers
 collapse sectionChapter Nine—  VOOP after Stalin:  Survival and Decay
 •The 1955 Congress and Its Aftermath
 •The Lakoshchënkov Affair
 •1955–1960
 •The Annual Report on VOOP Activities for 1957
 •Chapter Ten—  Resurrection
 •Biotechnics
 •The Academy of Sciences Commission on Zapovedniki
 •The Rise of MOIP as a Center of Resistance
 •The Zapovednik Conference of 1954
 •Day Two
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 •Glavokhota RSFSR
 •The Academy of Sciences' Commission Takes Off
 collapse sectionChapter Twelve—  A Time to Meet
 •Enter the Geographers
 •The 1957 Conference on Rare and Endangered Species
 •The All-Union Conference on Zapovedniki
 •Winning the Young: MOIP, KIuBZ, VOOP, and the Young Naturalists
 collapse sectionChapter Thirteen—  More Trouble in Paradise:  Crises of the Zapovedniki in the Khrushchëv Era
 •The Squirrel that Destroyed Thirty Nature Reserves
 •The Fate of the Academy of Sciences Commission on Nature Protection
 collapse sectionChapter Fourteen—  Student Movements:  Catalysts for a New Activism
 •The Moscow State University Biology—Soil Sciences Student Brigade for Nature Protection
 •The Kedrograd Experiment
 •Vladimir Alekseevich Chivilikhin
 collapse sectionChapter Fifteen—  Three Men in a Boat:  VOOP in the Early 1960s
 •From Khrushchëv to Brezhnev: Learning to Read the System
 •Kedrograd Coda
  Chapter Sixteen—  Storm over Baikal
 collapse sectionChapter Seventeen—  Science Doesn't Stand Still
 •The Zapovednik Question in the 1960s and 1970s
 •Paradigms in Motion
 •The Crisis of the Biocenosis
 •The Perils of the Etalon : A Little Reserve Raises Big Questions
 •Where to Draw the Line? The Boundary Problem of the Biocenosis
 •The Legacy of Vernadskii
 •Enter the Philosophers (and Others): "Environmentalism" as Self-Promotion
 collapse sectionChapter Eighteen—  Environmental Struggles in the Era of Stagnation
 •The Further Evolution of the Druzhiny
 •Highlights of the History of the Druzhiny , 1965–1986
 •The Plan to Reroute the Northern Rivers
 collapse sectionChapter Nineteen—  Environmental Activism under Gorbachëv
 •Russian National Environmentalism
 •Democratization and the Crisis of the Druzhiny
 •The Social-Ecological Union
 •The Masses Weigh In
  Conclusion

 collapse sectionNotes
 •Introduction
 •Chapter One— Environmental Activism and Social Identity
 •Chapter Two— Archipelago of Freedom
 •Chapter Three— The Road to "Liquidation": Conservation in the Postwar Years
 •Chapter Four—Zapovedniki in Peril, 1948–1950
 •Chapter Five— Liquidation: The Second Phase, 1950
 •Chapter Six— The Deluge, 1951
 •Chapter Seven— In the Throes of Crisis: VOOP in Stalin 's Last Years
 •Chapter Eight— Death and Purgatory
 •Chapter Nine— VOOP after Stalin: Survival and Decay
 •Chapter Eleven— A Time to Build
 •Chapter Twelve— A Time to Meet
 •Chapter Thirteen— More Trouble in Paradise: Crises of the Zapovedniki in the Khrushchëv Era
 •Chapter Fourteen— Student Movements: Catalysts for a New Activism
 •Chapter Fifteen— Three Men in a Boat: VOOP in the Early 1960s
 •Chapter Sixteen— Storm over Baikal
 •Chapter Seventeen— Science Doesn't Stand Still
 •Chapter Eighteen— Environmental Struggles in the Era of Stagnation
 •Chapter Nineteen— Environmental Activism under Gorbachëv
 •Conclusion
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