In the Name of the Great Work | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Doubravka OlSáková 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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature and the East European Experience
Paul Josephson

Chapter 1. Kafkaesque Paradigms: The Stalinist Plan for the Transformation of Nature in Czechoslovakia
Doubravka OlSáková and ArnoSt stanzel

Chapter 2. Untamed Seedlings: Hungary and Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature
Zsuzsanna Borvendég and Mária Palasik

Chapter 3. The Conspiracy of Silence: Stalinist Plan for the Transformation of Nature in Poland
Beata Wysokinska

Conclusion: Environmental History, East-European Societies and Totalitarian Regimes
Doubravka OlSáková

Name Index

Local Index

Subject Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781789205022
ISBN-10:	1789205026
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	Ol¿áková, Doubravka
Hersteller:	Berghahn Books
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Doubravka Ol¿áková
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.06.2019
Gewicht:	0,469 kg

Artikel-ID: 116719130