ABSTRACT
Introduction In a paper presented at a conference on the Soviet Environment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in early January 1990, Marshall Goldman argued that whereas the Greens in the West are "internationalist", the Green Movements emerging in the Soviet Union were separatist (nationalist) in character: "Inside the Soviet Union, environmentalists tend to be separatists...In contrast, the environmental cause in most of the rest of the world tends to be anti-nationalistic, almost "one world" in outlook."1 Representatives of green circles in the West have also expressed views similar to that of Goldman. The Greens in the former Soviet Union, though, are not at all happy with being referred to as "nationalists" and have on numerous occasions stated their commitment to the principle of "thinking globally and acting locally".
