Leonid Leonov
Soviet novelist and playwrightWikipedia
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Sep 27, 2026
Sophie PinkhamGUEST
... who opposed his, um, his practices and in fact risked their lives in order to try to protect forests.
Sophie PinkhamGUEST
Um, and in the later Stalinist period when some writers, notably a man called Leonid Leonov, um, began to really protest against the deforestation that had run rampant under Stalin and indeed identified the forest as an essential source of Russian identity, and therefore something that had to be protected.
Sophie PinkhamGUEST
I should add also that under Stalin it was not only a matter of deforestation, there was a sort of a strange duality to it because late in his life, Stalin developed this bizarre plan called Stalin's Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature it was called, with sort of typical Stalinist grandiosity.
Sophie PinkhamGUEST
And part of that plan was in fact to plant large numbers of trees in order to protect Russian land from what were imagined as the uncivilized Central Asian steppe winds, and therefore thereby help agriculture.
Sophie PinkhamGUEST
... who opposed his, um, his practices and in fact risked their lives in order to try to protect forests.
Sophie PinkhamGUEST
Um, and in the later Stalinist period when some writers, notably a man called Leonid Leonov, um, began to really protest against the deforestation that had run rampant under Stalin and indeed identified the forest as an essential source of Russian identity and therefore something that had to be protected.
Sophie PinkhamGUEST
I should add also that under Stalin it was not only a matter of deforestation, there was a sort of a strange duality to it because late in his life, Stalin developed this bizarre plan called Stalin's Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature it was called with sort of typical Stalinist grandiosity.
Sophie PinkhamGUEST
And part of that plan was in fact to plant large numbers of trees in order to protect Russian land from what were imagined as the uncivilized Central Asian steppe winds, and therefore thereby help agriculture.