In the Name of the Great Work - Группа авторов
| Автор: | Группа авторов |
| Издательство: | Ingram |
| Серия: | Environment in History: International Perspectives |
| Жанр произведения: | История |
| Год издания: | 0 |
| isbn: | 9781785332531 |
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.