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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 |
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New York; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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1 online resource (x, 311 pages) |
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Environment in History: International Perspectives ; ; 10 |
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Environmental policy - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century |
Environmental policy - Soviet Union - History |
Socialism - Environmental aspects - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century |
Nature - Effect of human beings on - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century |
Environmental impact analysis - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century |
Environmental degradation - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century |
Social change - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century |
Europe, Eastern - Environmental conditions - History - 20th century |
Europe, Eastern - Social conditions - 20th century |
Europe, Eastern Environmental conditions History 20th century |
Europe, Eastern Social conditions 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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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. |
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