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In the Name of the Great Work : Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe / ed. by Doubravka Olšáková.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Environment in History: International Perspectives ; 10Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785332524
  • 9781785332531
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 509 22//gereng
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature, and the East European Experience -- CHAPTER 1 Kafkaesque Paradigms: The Stalinist Plan for the Transformation of Nature in Czechoslovakia -- CHAPTER 2 Untamed Seedlings: Hungary and Stalin’s Plan for the Transformation of Nature -- CHAPTER 3 The Conspiracy of Silence: The Stalinist Plan for the Transformation of Nature in Poland -- Conclusion: Environmental History, East European Societies, and Totalitarian Regimes -- Index
Summary: Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin’s vision of a total “transformation of nature.” Intended to increase agricultural yields dramatically, this utopian impulse quickly spread to the newly communist states of Eastern Europe, captivating political elites and war-fatigued publics alike. By the time of Stalin’s death, however, these attempts at “transformation”—which relied upon ideologically corrupted and pseudoscientific theories—had proven a spectacular failure. This richly detailed volume follows the history of such projects in three communist states—Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia—and explores their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature, and the East European Experience -- CHAPTER 1 Kafkaesque Paradigms: The Stalinist Plan for the Transformation of Nature in Czechoslovakia -- CHAPTER 2 Untamed Seedlings: Hungary and Stalin’s Plan for the Transformation of Nature -- CHAPTER 3 The Conspiracy of Silence: The Stalinist Plan for the Transformation of Nature in Poland -- Conclusion: Environmental History, East European Societies, and Totalitarian Regimes -- Index

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Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin’s vision of a total “transformation of nature.” Intended to increase agricultural yields dramatically, this utopian impulse quickly spread to the newly communist states of Eastern Europe, captivating political elites and war-fatigued publics alike. By the time of Stalin’s death, however, these attempts at “transformation”—which relied upon ideologically corrupted and pseudoscientific theories—had proven a spectacular failure. This richly detailed volume follows the history of such projects in three communist states—Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia—and explores their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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