SUMMARY:

In the introduction to the forum “A Green End to the Red Empire,” its editors explore the history of ecological mobilizations during the late Soviet period and in post-Soviet states. They focus on defining the phenomenon of Soviet “environmentalism,” the intertwining of environmental histories of the Cold War with other national and transnational narratives, as well as on the problem of a recent “regional turn” in Soviet and post-Soviet studies. Localized and at the same time multiscale histories open new perspectives on the past and help identify entanglements of central and peripheral actors. Finally, the authors review the main findings of the four articles published in the forum and put them in perspective to answer the question: What was late Soviet environmentalism?