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Title In the name of the great work : Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its impact in Eastern Europe / edited by Doubravka Olšáková.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 311 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series The environment in history : international perspectives ; volume 10
Environment in history ; v. 10.
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.
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Subject Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Political and social views.
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
Political and social views.
Environmental policy -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
Environmental policy.
Eastern Europe.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Environmental policy -- Soviet Union -- History.
Soviet Union.
Socialism -- Environmental aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
Socialism.
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.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Social change -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
Environmental impact analysis.
Europe, Eastern -- Environmental conditions -- History -- 20th century.
Environmental conditions.
Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
Environmental degradation.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Social change.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
Ecology.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History.
Added Author Olšáková, Doubravka, editor.
Other Form: Print version: In the name of the great work. New York : Berghahn, 2016 9781785332524 (DLC) 2016024960 (OCoLC)953525353
ISBN 9781785332531 (electronic book)
1785332538 (electronic book)
1789205026
9781789205022
9781785332524
178533252X