I90 SEER, 84, I, 2006 To this end, a survey was carried out in six regions/cities of Russia (Moscow, St Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Komi, Bahkortostan and Dagestan) using much of the same vocabulary that was employed by Putin in the aforementioned article. The results were then compared with the I995-98 World Values survey conducted by Ronald Inglehart in an attempt to distinguishbetween universaland traditionalRussianvalues. The succeeding seven chapters reflect the research conducted on this basis focusing on each individualsix regions/cities and, in addition, on Russia as a whole. However, it should be pointed out that the chapters do not focus solely on such quantitative data, but also provide invaluable backgroundmaterial on these regions/cities and combine the quantitativedata with qualitativeanalysis.In doing so, the book provides an invaluableinsight into contemporaryRussian society. In addition to the individual case-studies, there is a chapter on the changing nature of federalism within post-Soviet Russia since I99I. In the vast majorityof countries such a shortperiod would be of little interestto the reader, but this is certainlynot so in the Russian case which has experienced dramatic changes in the nature of its federal structurereflecting more often than not the changing power relations between the centre and the regions. The chapterprovides an interestinginsight into these changing relationsand how they affectedthe federal compromise at various stages. The penultimate chapter examines the role of educational textbooks in the process of nation building, highlighting the difficulties of developing a nation-building programme in such a multi-ethnic environment. For instance, the chapter highlights the failure of history textbooks to reflect the multiethnic nature of Russia and the hidden biases within the Russian literaturewhen writing on the history of its minorities. The final chapter examines the issue of religion and whether the similar difficultiesconfronting both Islam and the Russian Orthodox Church (for example the explosion of alternative religions since I99 I)willprovidethem with a common cause orwhethertheirdifferenceswill prevent any form of compromise. The researchwould have benefitedfroma largersurveysample(itconsisted of only 1,200 respondents) but hopefully the next volume will receive greater funding in order to rectify this problem. In addition, it would have been very helpfulto have had a map of Russiawith detailsof the variousareas of study inserted at the beginning of the book. But, overall, it is well-written and well structuredand providesan invaluableinsightinto the complexities of the Russiannation-buildingprocess. Department ofPolitics J. GLENN UniversityofSouthampton Fagan, Adam. Environment andDemocracy in theCzech Republic.TheEnvironmental Movement in theTransition Process. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham and Northampton , MA, 2004. vi + 195 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. [49.95: $85.00. ENVIRONMENTAL issues in Central and EasternEurope were a strongfocus of popular and academic interestin the late I980s and early I 990s. The process REVIEWS I9I of glasnostbegan a trickleofinformationwhich, by the time of statesocialism's rapid collapse, soon became a deluge accompanied by strikingimages of the worst pollution 'hot spots'. Some observers, the reviewer included, argued ecological protest to be a catalytic locus in the demise of socialism. But with the transitiontowards 'democracy' (or at least its idealized Westernversion), general interest in the environment tailed off leaving a few scholars, Adam Fagan included, to follow the analytical trail to its current day position. This new book, therefore, represents a rare example of a longitudinal study of ecological protest in post-socialist states, as seen through the lens of the environmentalmovement in one country,the Czech Republic. The book makes many serious claims; central amongst them is the notion thatthe stateof the environmentalmovement (andthusenvironmentalpolitics in general) represents a lens on the progress, maturity and inclusivity of democratic politics. This is not a new claim by Fagan -rather it represents the culmination of evidence gathered and published by him and key collaborators since the early i99Os. In general the claim stands up: a rough progression in the scope, diversity and successes of the environmental movement hasoccurredasdemocraticpracticeshavebecome more embedded throughsuccessivegovernments.As in more matureWesternpoliticalsystems, Faganalso shows that the environment (as a political issue)does better under liberal than conservative polities or when it is pushed by king-making minorities in delicate coalitions (as with Die Grunen in Germany). That said, Fagan also makes clear that- despite some evident similaritiesto Western environmental movements -the Czech case...