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1 online resource (x, 311 pages). |
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polychrome |
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Series |
The environment in history : international perspectives ; volume 10
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Environment in history ; v. 10.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Contents |
Introduction: The Stalin plan for the transformation of nature and the East European experience / Paul Josephson -- Kafkaesque paradigms : the Stalinist plan for the transformation of nature in Czechoslovakia / Doubravka Olšáková and Arnošt Štanzel -- Untamed seedlings : Hungary and Stalin plan for the transformation of nature / Zsuzsanna Borvendég and Mária Palasik -- The conspiracy of silence : Stalinist plan for the transformation of nature in Poland / Beata Wysokińska -- Conclusion: Environmental history, East-European societies and totalitarian regimes / Doubravka Olšáková -- Name index -- Local index -- Subject 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. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Political and social views.
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Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953. |
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Political and social views. |
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Environmental policy -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
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Environmental policy. |
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Eastern Europe. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Environmental policy -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Soviet Union. |
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Socialism -- Environmental aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
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Socialism. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
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Environmental impact analysis -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
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Environmental degradation -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Social change -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
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Environmental impact analysis. |
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Europe, Eastern -- Environmental conditions -- History -- 20th century.
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Environmental conditions. |
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Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Social conditions. |
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Environmental degradation. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General. |
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Social change. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern. |
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Ecology. |
Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
Genre/Form |
History.
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Added Author |
Olšáková, Doubravka, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: In the name of the great work. New York : Berghahn, 2016 9781785332524 (DLC) 2016024960 (OCoLC)953525353 |
ISBN |
9781785332531 (electronic book) |
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1785332538 (electronic book) |
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1789205026 |
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9781789205022 |
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9781785332524 |
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178533252X |
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