This volume highlights the problems of the environment and industry in Ukraine from 1985 to 1990. The main theme of the book is the close link between the damage to nature and the growth of political activism and patriotism in Ukraine.
Economic overview; the effects of the Chernobyl disaster; the tragedy of Narodychi; ecology - irrigation and nuclear power projects; ecology - the green world; the Donbass miners and the 1989 coal strike.