Právě vychází: In the Name of the Great Work (paperback)
Nakladatelství Berghahn Books vydalo v těchto dnech paperbackovou verzi úspěšné knihy Doubravky Olšákové (ed.) In the Name of the Great Work: Stalin’s Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe. Knihu v anglickém jazyce (v pevné vazbě, v paperbacku nebo v elektronické podobě) lze až do konce srpna získat se slevou 25 %. Podrobnější informace naleznete zde.
Olšáková, Doubravka (ed.). In the Name of the Great Work: Stalin’s Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe. New York: Berghahn 2019. 322 p. ISBN 978-1-78920-502-2.
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.