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.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Borvendég, Zsuzsanna,; Josephson, Paul,; Olšáková, Doubravka,; Palasik, Mária,; Wysokińska, Beata,; Štanzel, Arnošt,
• HerausgeberIn: Olšáková, Doubravka,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785332531; 9783110998221
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785332531?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Doubravka Olšáková.

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.