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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781785332524
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-78533-252-4
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.09.2016
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2016
- Serie: Environment in History: International Perspectives
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 621 g
- Seiten: 322
- Format (B x H x T): 157 x 235 x 22 mm
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