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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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Titolo: 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 Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , [2016]
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 311 pages)
Disciplina: 509
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Europe, Eastern Environmental conditions History 20th century
Europe, Eastern Social conditions 20th century
Classificazione: NQ 8273
Persona (resp. second.): BorvendégZsuzsanna
JosephsonPaul
OlšákováDoubravka
PalasikMária
WysokińskaBeata
ŠtanzelArnošt
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: In the Name of the Great Work  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78920-502-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910792523103321
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