Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature Under Siege

by Murray Feshbach and Martin Deutsch

Hospitals perform appendectomies not with scalpels, which are in short supply, but with shaving razor blades....70,000,000 people (nearly a third of the population) live in places where the Soviet-defined maximum pollution concentration is exceeded by at least five times...DDT, despite being banned in the USSR since 1972, is used on sixteen percent of agricultural land...The facts, long hidden by official secrecy, are at last emerging, and they tell...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465016642
• ISBN13: 9780465016648
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.