In the Name of the Great Work

Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe

322 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Environment in History: International Perspectives
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781785332524
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2016
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Doubravka Ol¿áková