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In the Name of the Great Work: Stalin´s Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe
Doubravka Olsakova (Ed.)
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Description for In the Name of the Great Work: Stalin´s Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe
Hardback. Following Stalin's lead, the newly communist states of Eastern Europe pursued a total "transformation of nature" in the 1940s and 1950s intended to improve agricultural outputs. This richly detailed volume follows the history of such projects in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, exploring their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences. Editor(s): Olsakova, Doubravka. Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW3; RND; RNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 584.
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 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. ... Read more
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 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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Environment in History: International Perspectives
Condition
New
Number of Pages
322
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785332524
SKU
V9781785332524
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About Doubravka Olsakova (Ed.)
Doubravka Olsakova is a senior researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, where she leads a working group on environmental history. Her publications include the book Science Goes to the People! (2014), which examines mass indoctrination and the dissemination of science in communist Czechoslovakia.
Reviews for In the Name of the Great Work: Stalin´s Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe
This is a necessary book... the first monograph dedicated entirely to how [Stalin's parallel] plans played out in the `people's democracies' of Eastern Europe during Stalin's lifetime and beyond... Olsakova's work is thus a significant addition to extant literature on environmental history and the twentieth century history of Eastern Europe. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe