In the Name of the Great Work Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe
Olšáková, Doubravka
In the Name of the Great Work Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe Edited by Doubravka Olšáková - Oxford Berghahn Books 2016 - 322 Seiten
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Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalins 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 Stalins 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.
9781785332531
Stalin, Josif Vissarionovič <1878-1953>
1948-1953
Umweltpolitik
Ostblock
Auswirkung
Transformation
Natur
Landwirtschaft
Sowjetunion
Ostmitteleuropa
In the Name of the Great Work Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe Edited by Doubravka Olšáková - Oxford Berghahn Books 2016 - 322 Seiten
E-Book / Zugriff nur im Lesesaal
Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalins 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 Stalins 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.
9781785332531
Stalin, Josif Vissarionovič <1878-1953>
1948-1953
Umweltpolitik
Ostblock
Auswirkung
Transformation
Natur
Landwirtschaft
Sowjetunion
Ostmitteleuropa