UID:
almafu_9960962751802883
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 311 pages)
ISBN:
1-78920-502-6
Serie:
Environment in History: International Perspectives ; 10
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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List of Tables --
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Acknowledgements --
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Abbreviations --
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Introduction: The Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature, and the East European Experience --
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CHAPTER 1 Kafkaesque Paradigms: The Stalinist Plan for the Transformation of Nature in Czechoslovakia --
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CHAPTER 2 Untamed Seedlings: Hungary and Stalin’s Plan for the Transformation of Nature --
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CHAPTER 3 The Conspiracy of Silence: The Stalinist Plan for the Transformation of Nature in Poland --
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Conclusion: Environmental History, East European Societies, and Totalitarian Regimes --
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Index
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In English.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-78533-252-X
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-78533-253-8
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
DOI:
10.1515/9781785332531
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