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...
| Autres auteurs: | , , , , , |
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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New York Oxford : Berghahn Books,
[2016]
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| Titres liés à la collection: | Environment in History: International Perspectives
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| Sujets: | Environmental policy Socialism Nature Environmental impact analysis Environmental degradation Social change HISTORY / Europe / Eastern HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union |
| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (322 p.) |
Table des matières:
- 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