ABSTRACT
At the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s the ‘green wave’ swept across most of the countries of Western Europe, as well as Japan and the USA. Eastern Europe, too, was not unaffected, even though we are less familiar with conditions in that part of the world. Labels descriptive of the ‘surfriders’ who were swept along on the crest of this wave include such phrases as ‘conservation of resources’, ‘the fight against pollution’, ‘campaigns for decentralisation of decisions’, together with touches of populist proposals for the organisation of society, ‘many small firms better than a few big ones’, ‘small is beautiful’, ‘the struggle for the preservation of ecological variety by means of self-subsistence’, etc.
