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 Eastern Europe, ca...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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New York Oxford : Berghahn Books,
[2016]
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Environment in History: International Perspectives
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| Schlagworte: | Environmental policy Socialism Nature Environmental impact analysis Environmental degradation Social change HISTORY / Europe / Eastern HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (322 p.) |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (322 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9781785332531 1785332538 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9781785332531 |
| Zugangseinschränkungen: | Restricted Access |