In the name of the great work Stalin's plan for the transformation of nature and its impact in Eastern Europe

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 Eas...

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Main Author Olšáková, Doubravka
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY Berghahn Books 2016
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Edition1
SeriesThe environment in history : international perspectives
Subjects
20th century
Agriculture
Ecology
Effect of human beings on
Environmental aspects
Environmental conditions
Environmental degradation
Environmental impact analysis
Environmental policy
Europe, Eastern
European Studies
History
Nature
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Political and social views
Slavic Studies
Social change
Social conditions
Socialism
Soviet Union
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953
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ISBN9781785332524
178533252X
1789205026
9781789205022
DOI10.1515/9781785332531

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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.
ISBN:9781785332524
178533252X
1789205026
9781789205022
DOI:10.1515/9781785332531