1st Edition
Sugarland The Transformation of the Countryside in Communist Albania
By Artan R. Hoxha
Copyright 2023
306 Pages
by
Central European University Press
In this historical monograph on non-urban communist Albania, Artan Hoxha discusses the ambitious development project that turned a swampland into a site of sugar production after 1945. The author seeks to free the history of Albanian communism from the stereotypes that still circulate about it with stigmas of an aberration, paranoia, extreme nationalism, and xenophobia. This micro-history of... Read more
List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter 1. The Making of the Sugar Scheme: Transitioning from Empire to Nation, Chapter 2. The Making of Maliq's Landscape: Modern and Stalinist, Chapter 3. Sugar and the Communist Construction of Spatial Inequalities in Maliq, Chapter 4. Maliq and the World, Chapter 5. Communism and After: From Sugar to Ruins, Epilogue, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Artan R. Hoxha is a historian of Southeastern Europe with a strong thematic interest in the social and cultural transformations during the twentieth century.
