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
Online AccessGet full text
ISBN9781785332524
178533252X
1789205026
9781789205022
DOI10.1515/9781785332531

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Table of Contents:
  • In the name of the great work: Stalin's plan for the transformation of nature and its impact in Eastern Europe -- 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 -- Index.
  • Front Matter Table of Contents List of Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: CHAPTER 1: Kafkaesque Paradigms: CHAPTER 2: Untamed Seedlings: CHAPTER 3: The Conspiracy of Silence: Conclusion: Index
  • Half Title -- In the Name of the Great Work -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Kafkaesque Paradigms: Czechoslovakia -- Chapter 2 Untamed Seedlings: Hungary -- Chapter 3 The Conspiracy of Silence: Poland -- Conclusion -- Index