In the Name of the Great Work : Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe EPUB
Edited by Doubravka Olsakova
Part of the Environment in History: International Perspectives series
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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 “transformationâ€â€”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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- Pages:322 pages
- Publisher:Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:01/09/2016
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- ISBN:9781785332531
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- Pages:322 pages
- Publisher:Berghahn Books
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- ISBN:9781785332531
