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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

Herausgeber: Ol¿áková, Doubravka

Beschreibung

Follows the history of projects in three communist states-Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia-designed to implement Stalin's vision of a total "transformation of nature" and intended to dramatically increase agricultural yields.. Explores their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.

Autor

Doubravka OlSáková is a senior researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, where she leads a working group on environmental history. Her publications include the book Science Goes to the People! (2014), which examines mass indoctrination and the dissemination of science in communist Czechoslovakia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9781789205022
• ISBN-10: 1789205026
• Artikelnr.: 56747948