1st Edition
The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe Comparison and Entanglements
570 Pages
by
Central European University Press
This 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... Read more
List of Maps, List of Tables, Introduction, I. The Interwar Soviet Model and its Post-1945 Application in the Newly Annexed Territories, II. Land Collectivization in Central Europe, III. Land Collectivization in Southeastern Europe, IV. Axes of Differentiation: Center and Periphery, “Class Struggle,” Social and Ethnic Cleavages, V. Appendix, About the Authors, Index
Biography
Constantin Iordachi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University and President of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies.
Arnd Bauerkämper is Professor of Modern European History at the Freie Universität Berlin. Author of: Ländliche Gesellschaft in der kommunistischen Diktatur. Zwangsmodernisierung und Tradition in Brandenburg 1945–1963. Cologne: Böhlau, 2002; Die Sozialgeschichte der DDR. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2005; Das umstrittene Gedächtnis. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2012.
