Abstract
Between the years 1951-1959, the construction of the great waterwork Lipno Dam took place in the south-Bohemian borderland. The object of this research is the process of its planning and building, including its use for "building" the socialist society and its reception by the Czechoslovak public.
These are presented in the context of the phenomenon of "great works of socialism" that affected all countries of the Eastern Block during the period of the post-war modernization and economical renewal and that was closely connected with the implementation of the Soviet concept known as "the Stalin plan for the transformation of nature".