In the name of the great work
| Titel: | 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 |
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| Veröffentlicht: | New York; Oxford : berghahn, [2016] |
| Umfang: | x, 311 Seiten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
The environment in history. international perspectives ; volume 10 |
| ISBN: | 178533252X ; 9781785332524 ; 9781785332531 |
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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.
