Science Technology and Ecopolitics in the USSR

Although enormous industrial advances were made in the USSR the country still lagged behind the West in the post-industrial age. What the Soviets could not build or manufacture they had to get from the West. The final outcome was a culture developed in which there was no regard for consumerism and no respect for the environment. The author traces the development of the Soviet malaise but warns that a future authoritarian regime could still revive the technological race. Conversely he also replies to the academic debate on the excesses of modern technology in the West with a sharp criticism of feminist and post-modernist perspectives.