Title 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

Published New York : Berghahn, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (x, 311 pages) Series The environment in history : international perspectives ; volume 10 Environment in history ; v. 10. 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Political and social views SUBJECT Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 fast Stalin, Josif Vissarionovič 1878-1953 gnd Subject Environmental policy -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century Environmental policy -- Soviet Union -- History Socialism -- Environmental aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century Environmental impact analysis -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century Environmental degradation -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century Social change -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General. HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern. Ecology Environmental degradation Environmental impact analysis Environmental policy Nature -- Effect of human beings on Political and social views Social change Social conditions Transformation Landwirtschaft Natur SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Environmental conditions -- History -- 20th century Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 20th century Subject Eastern Europe Soviet Union Osteuropa Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Olšáková, Doubravka, editor ISBN 9781785332531 1785332538 1789205026 9781789205022

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