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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 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,682
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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 (Hardcover)

Doubravka Olsakova

Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives

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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.

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Imprint: Berghahn Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Environment in History: International Perspectives
Release date: September 2016
Editors: Doubravka Olsakova
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-252-4
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN: 1-78533-252-X
Barcode: 9781785332524

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