TY  - BOOK
AU  - Olšáková,Doubravka
TI  - In the Name of the Great Work: Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe
SN  - 9781785332531
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Stalin, Josif Vissarionovič <1878-1953>
KW  - Umweltpolitik
KW  - Ostblock
KW  - Auswirkung
KW  - Transformation
KW  - Natur
KW  - Landwirtschaft
KW  - Sowjetunion
KW  - Ostmitteleuropa
N1  - E-Book / Zugriff nur im Lesesaal
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332531
ER  -