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.
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: The Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature and the East European Experience
Paul Josephson
Chapter 1. Kafkaesque Paradigms: The Stalinist Plan for the Transformation of Nature in Czechoslovakia
Doubravka OlSáková and ArnoSt stanzel
Chapter 2. Untamed Seedlings: Hungary and Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature
Zsuzsanna Borvendég and Mária Palasik
Chapter 3. The Conspiracy of Silence: Stalinist Plan for the Transformation of Nature in Poland
Beata Wysokinska
Conclusion: Environmental History, East-European Societies and Totalitarian Regimes
Doubravka OlSáková
Name Index
Local Index
Subject Index
