In the Name of the Great Work

Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe
Herausgeber: Ol¿áková, Doubravka

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Follows the history of projects in three communist states—Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia—designed to implement Stalin's vision of a total "transformation of nature" and intended to dramatically increase agricultural yields.. Explores their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 619g
• ISBN-13: 9781785332524
• ISBN-10: 178533252X
• Artikelnr.: 44893857

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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