LEADER 04514nam 22007335 450 001 9910792523103321 005 20221107062033.0 010 $a1-78920-502-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781785332531 035 $a(CKB)3710000001060328 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4415192 035 $a(DE-B1597)637395 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781785332531 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001060328 100 $a20221107h20162016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aIn the Name of the Great Work $eStalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe /$fed. by Doubravka Ol?áková 210 1$aNew York; $aOxford : $cBerghahn Books, $d[2016] 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (x, 311 pages) 225 0 $aEnvironment in History: International Perspectives ;$v10 311 $a1-78533-252-X 311 $a1-78533-253-8 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tTable of Contents -- $tList of Tables -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction: The Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature, and the East European Experience -- $tCHAPTER 1 Kafkaesque Paradigms: The Stalinist Plan for the Transformation of Nature in Czechoslovakia -- $tCHAPTER 2 Untamed Seedlings: Hungary and Stalin?s Plan for the Transformation of Nature -- $tCHAPTER 3 The Conspiracy of Silence: The Stalinist Plan for the Transformation of Nature in Poland -- $tConclusion: Environmental History, East European Societies, and Totalitarian Regimes -- $tIndex 330 $aBeginning 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. 606 $aEnvironmental policy$zEurope, Eastern$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEnvironmental policy$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aSocialism$xEnvironmental aspects$zEurope, Eastern$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNature$xEffect of human beings on$zEurope, Eastern$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEnvironmental impact analysis$zEurope, Eastern$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEnvironmental degradation$zEurope, Eastern$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSocial change$zEurope, Eastern$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEurope, Eastern$xEnvironmental conditions$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEurope, Eastern$xSocial conditions$y20th century 607 $aEurope, Eastern$xEnvironmental conditions$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aEurope, Eastern$xSocial conditions$y20th century 615 0$aEnvironmental policy$xHistory 615 0$aEnvironmental policy$xHistory. 615 0$aSocialism$xEnvironmental aspects$xHistory 615 0$aNature$xEffect of human beings on$xHistory 615 0$aEnvironmental impact analysis$xHistory 615 0$aEnvironmental degradation$xHistory 615 0$aSocial change$xHistory 615 0$aEurope, Eastern$xEnvironmental conditions$xHistory 615 0$aEurope, Eastern$xSocial conditions 676 $a509 686 $aNQ 8273$2rvk 702 $aBorvendég$b Zsuzsanna, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aJosephson$b Paul, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aOl?áková$b Doubravka, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aOl?áková$b Doubravka, $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aPalasik$b Mária, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aWysoki?ska$b Beata, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $a?tanzel$b Arno?t, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792523103321 996 $aIn the Name of the Great Work$93720555 997 $aUNINA