Olšáková, Doubravka  <br/><br/>
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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<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781785332531 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Stalin, Josif Vissarionovič <1878-1953>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1948-1953 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Umweltpolitik  <br/>Ostblock  <br/>Auswirkung<br/>Transformation <br/>Natur <br/>Landwirtschaft 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Sowjetunion   <br/>Ostmitteleuropa