In the Name of the Great Work

Doubravka Olšáková 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.

• AcknowledgmentsList of TablesAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature and the East European ExperiencePaul JosephsonChapter 1. Kafkaesque Paradigms: The Stalinist Plan for the Transformation of Nature in CzechoslovakiaDoubravka Olšáková and Arnošt ŠtanzelChapter 2. Untamed Seedlings: Hungary and Stalin Plan for the Transformation of NatureZsuzsanna Borvendég and Mária PalasikChapter 3. The Conspiracy of Silence: Stalinist Plan for the Transformation of Nature in PolandBeata WysokińskaConclusion: Environmental History, East-European Societies and Totalitarian RegimesDoubravka OlšákováName IndexLocal IndexSubject Index

“The book makes a valuable contribution to the understudied environmental history of Central and Eastern Europe.” • H-Soz-Kult“This is a necessary book… the first monograph dedicated entirely to how [Stalin’s parallel] plans played out in the ‘people’s democracies’ of Eastern Europe during Stalin’s lifetime and beyond… Olsakova’s work is thus a significant addition to extant literature on environmental history and the twentieth century history of Eastern Europe.” • Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe“By focusing on the Eastern European experience, this book offers an original angle on the ‘Stalin Plan.’ Its case studies are substantial, covering a considerable amount of ground and presenting new empirical findings.” • Jonathan Oldfield, University of Birmingham