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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 /

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 Eas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Olšáková, Doubravka (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn, 2016.
Colección:Environment in history ; v. 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Stalin plan for the transformation of nature and the East European experience / Paul Josephson
  • Kafkaesque paradigms : the Stalinist plan for the transformation of nature in Czechoslovakia / Doubravka Olšáková and Arnošt Štanzel
  • Untamed seedlings : Hungary and Stalin plan for the transformation of nature / Zsuzsanna Borvendég and Mária Palasik
  • 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.