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.
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, ca...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Environment in History: International Perspectives ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (322 p.) |
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Table of 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