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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Autres auteurs:	Borvendég, Zsuzsanna (Collaborateur), Josephson, Paul (Collaborateur), Olšáková, Doubravka 1977- (Collaborateur), Palasik, Mária (Éditeur intellectuel), Wysokińska, Beata (Collaborateur), Štanzel, Arnošt (Collaborateur)
Format:	Ebook
Langue:	English
Publié:	New York Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]
Titres liés à la collection:	Environment in History: International Perspectives 10
Sujets:	Environmental policy Socialism Nature Environmental impact analysis Environmental degradation Social change HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union HISTORY / Europe / Eastern HISTORY / Europe / General History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
Description matérielle:	1 Online-Ressource (322 p.)