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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 / edited by Doubravka Olšáková.
Van Pelt Library GE190.E852 I5 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Environment in history ; v. 10.
- The environment in history : international perspectives ; volume 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953--Political and social views.
- Stalin, Joseph.
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
- Environmental policy--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.
- Environmental policy.
- Environmental policy--Soviet Union--History.
- Socialism--Environmental aspects--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.
- Socialism.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.
- Nature.
- Environmental impact analysis--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.
- Environmental impact analysis.
- Environmental degradation--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.
- Environmental degradation.
- Social change--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.
- Social change.
- Social conditions.
- Environmental conditions.
- History.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Political and social views.
- Europe, Eastern--Environmental conditions--History--20th century.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Europe, Eastern--Social conditions--20th century.
- Eastern Europe.
- Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- x, 311 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn, 2016.
- 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. Book jacket.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781785332524
- 178533252X
- OCLC:
- 953525353
- Publisher Number:
- 99973530548
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