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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn,
2016.
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| Colección: | Environment in history ;
v. 10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 311 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781785332531 1785332538 1789205026 9781789205022 |