TY  - BOOK
AU  - Borvendég,Zsuzsanna
AU  - Josephson,Paul
AU  - Olšáková,Doubravka
AU  - Palasik,Mária
AU  - Wysokińska,Beata
AU  - Štanzel,Arnošt
TI  - In the Name of the Great Work: Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe 
T2  - Environment in History: International Perspectives
SN  - 9781785332524
U1  - 509 22//gereng
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Environmental degradation
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Environmental impact analysis
KW  - Environmental policy
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Social change
KW  - Socialism
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History: 20th Century to Present, Environmental Studies (General)
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332531?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785332531
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785332531/original
ER  -