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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807750503321

Titolo

Collectivization of agriculture in Eastern Europe / / Enno E. Kraehe [and six others], editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : University of Kentucky Press, , 1958

©1958

ISBN

0-8131-8649-8

0-8131-6422-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

338.12

Soggetti

Agriculture, Cooperative - Europe, Eastern

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; FOREWORD; Contents; MAPS; TABLES; INTRODUCTION; 1. EASTERN EUROPE AND WORLD AFFAIRS; 2. THE PEASANTRIES OF EASTERN EUROPE; 3. COLLECTIVIZATION OF AGRICULTURE IN SOVIET STRATEGY; 4. THE COLLECTIVIZATION OF BULGARIAN AGRICULTURE; 5. COLLECTIVIZATION IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND POLAND; 6. COLLECTIVIZATION IN HUNGARY AND ROMANIA; 7. COLLECTIVIZATION OF AGRICULTURE IN YUGOSLAVIA; APPENDIX A. Marxist Population Doctrine; APPENDIX B. Mechanization of Agriculture in the Balkans; APPENDIX C. Peasantisms

APPENDIX D. Who's Who in the Seminar on Collectivization of Agriculture in Eastern Europe

Sommario/riassunto

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 a