In the Name of the Great Work : Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe (Environment in History: International Perspectives)

Olšáková, Doubravka (EDT)

Berghahn Books（2016/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 322 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781785332524
• DDC分類 333.7094709045

Full Description

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.

Contents

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 Olšáková and Arnošt Štanzel

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 Wysokińska

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

Doubravka Olšáková

Name Index

Local Index

Subject Index