Socialist Agricultural Policy: Origins and Implementations

Authors

Janja Sedlaček, Institute of Contemporary History; Stephan Merl, Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History, Bielefeld University; Zsuzsanna Varga, Modern Hungarian History Department, Eötvös Loránd University; Eduard Kubů, Project and Program Associate, National Museum of Agriculture; Jan Slavíček, Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové; Lev Centrih, Institute of Contemporary History; University of Primorska; Márton László; Dániel Luka, University of Pécs, Grastyán Endre College for Advanced Studies; Marta Rendla, Institute of Contemporary History; Žarko Lazarević, Institute of Contemporary History

Keywords:

Kmetijska politika, Socialistične države, Vzhodna Evropa

Synopsis

In the fall of 2023, the Conference on Rural History in Cluj provided the setting for a panel discussion on the modalities of cooperativism as both a concept and a practice in socialist Eastern Europe after the Second World War. This discussion inevitably led to an examination of agricultural policy under socialism, given that the cooperative idea served as a key instrument for communist authorities in transforming the agricultural sector and imposing strict restrictions on private agriculture.

Chapters

  • Preface
    Žarko Lazarević
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  • Soviet Collectivization under Stalin, 1925 to 1953
    Stephan Merl
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  • Collectivization and the Construction of Socialist Agriculture (1944—1992): A Reassessment in Entangled Comparison of the Soviet and Eastern European Experience
    Stephan Merl
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  • Divergence from the Stalinist Model of Socialist Agriculture: The Case of Hungary
    Zsuzsanna Varga
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  • Socialist Agricultural Cooperatives in the Bohemian Lands (1948–1989)
    Eduard Kubů, Jan Slavíček
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  • The Demise of Collectivization in Slovenia: A Case Study of the Area around the Settlement Ig near Ljubljana in 1952
    Lev Centrih
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  • Anti-Collectivization Movements in the Former Háromszék County in 1950
    Márton László
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  • Developing Land Rights? The Long Way of Creating Cooperative Land Ownership in Hungary
    Dániel Luka
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  • Socialist Agricultural Policy and the Agricultural Extension Service in Slovenia since the Early 1970s
    Marta Rendla
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Published

December 22, 2025

Series

Vpogledi / Perspicacités

Print ISSN

2350-5656
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ISBN-13 (15)

978-961-7104-47-9

Date of first publication (11)

2025-12-22