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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olsakova, Doubravka
- Series:
- Environment in History: International Perspectives ; 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953--Political and social views.
- Stalin, Joseph.
- 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.
- Europe, Eastern--Environmental conditions--History--20th century.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Europe, Eastern--Social conditions--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 311 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-788-6
- 1-78920-502-6
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