Introduction: The Stalin plan for the transformation of nature and the East European experience / Paul Josephson -- Kafkaesque paradigms : the Stalinist plan for the transformation of nature in Czechoslovakia / Doubravka Olsakova and Arnost Stanzel -- Untamed seedlings : Hungary and Stalin plan for the transformation of nature / Zsuzsanna Borvendeg and Maria Palasik -- 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 Olsakova -- Name index -- Local index -- Subject index.