The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe
The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe

Author: Constantin Iordachi

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2014-03-31

Total Pages: 571

ISBN-13: 615522563X

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ÿThis book explores the interrelated campaigns of agricultural collectivization in the USSR and in the communist dictatorships established in Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe. Despite the profound, long-term societal impact of collectivization, the subject has remained relatively underresearched. The volume combines detailed studies of collectivization in individual Eastern European states with issueoriented comparative perspectives at regional level. Based on novel primary sources, it proposes a reappraisal of the theoretical underpinnings and research agenda of studies on collectivization in Eastern Europe.The contributions provide up-to-date overviews of recent research in the field and promote new approaches to the topic, combining historical comparisons with studies of transnational transfers and entanglements.

The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933
The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933

Author: R. Davies

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-13

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 0230273971

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This book examines the Soviet agricultural crisis of 1931-1933 which culminated in the major famine of 1933. It is the first volume in English to make extensive use of Russian and Ukrainian central and local archives to assess the extent and causes of the famine. It reaches new conclusions on how far the famine was 'organized' or 'artificial', and compares it with other Russian and Soviet famines and with major twentieth century famines elsewhere. Against this background, it discusses the emergence of collective farming as an economic and social system.

Communist Agriculture
Communist Agriculture

Author: Karl-Eugen Wädekin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-01-14

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1134965338

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A fascinating comparative study of how the agricultural experience of the Soviet Bloc has shaped and sometimes hindered development in the rest of the communist world, this book examines the agrarian policies of China, Mongolia, Vietnam, and Cuba, and provides an account of agricultural development in socialist economies which focuses on both the historical and contemporary aspects of this development.

Collectivization of Agriculture in Eastern Europe
Collectivization of Agriculture in Eastern Europe

Author: Irwin T. Sanders

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2021-10-21

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0813186498

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Collectivization of agriculture is an essential feature of the Communist program for the satellite countries of Eastern Europe. It is a means of extending state control of agriculture as well as the basis for developing large-scale industrial and military power. Irwin T. Sanders has edited this excellent group of papers by specialists on Eastern Europe and American rural social scientists, which collectively serve as an analysis of efforts to regiment the East European peasant. To those for whom the terms "collective farm" and "collectivization" have little meaning, this book will provide an actual picture of Communist effort to organize millions of peasants into a standard pattern of production and control. Such regimentation, these writers show, has led to less efficient agriculture from the standpoint of total production although it facilitates the delivery of produce to state economic enterprises.

The Hungarian Agricultural Miracle?
The Hungarian Agricultural Miracle?

Author: Zsuzsanna Varga

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-11-09

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 179363436X

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This book examines Soviet agriculture in post-1945 Hungary. It demonstrates how the agrarian lobby, a development following the 1956 revolution, led to contact with the West which allowed for the creation of an effective agricultural system. The author argues that this ‘Hungarian agricultural miracle,’ a hybrid of American technology and Soviet structures, was fundamental to the success of Hungarian collectivization.