| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Brian Bonhomme. Forests, Peasants, and Revolutionaries: Forest Conservation and Organization in Soviet Russia, 1917–1929. (East European Monographs, No. DCLIV.) New York: Columbia University Press. 2005. Pp. 252.

Referring to the vast forests that have played an elemental role in their history, Russians like to use the adjective neob"iatnye, meaning unencompassable or unimaginably large. The very vastness of the Russian forest may help explain why its role in Russia's past has not yet received due attention from historians. So fundamental is the forest, so thoroughly intertwined with Russia's culture and economy: where does one start? One inroad in recent years involves the question of forest conservation. Publications by V. K. Tepliakov, Jane T. Costlow, and Douglas R. Weiner have contributed a great deal to our understanding of the destruction and preservation of Russian forestland. Brian Bonhomme's monograph marks a new level of interest in the subject in terms of its willingness to narrow the focus to a specific period (the early years of the revolution) and to the specific topic of forest-related legislation and its impact on Russia's natural and socio-economic landscapes.

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