„The book offers a comparative perspective
regarding the communist transformation of the countryside within «Soviet Bloc»
countries, mainly focusing on organization and political practices within the
rural areas, land reforms and collectivization of agriculture, social change
and rural mentality, political instruments of the communist regimes for
transforming the village: between coercion and resistance; communist propaganda
and agitation in the rural world; cultural propaganda and representations of
the countryside in the official discourse in the «Eastern Bloc».
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The content of the book:
Acknowledgements
.......................................................... 13
Sorin RADU, Countryside and Communism in Eastern Europe:
Perceptions, Attitudes, Propaganda – Problems,
Interpretations and Perspectives .................................................................. 15
Cosmin BUDEANCĂ, The Concept of the Volume. The
Structure of the Volume..........................................................................44
Organization and political practices within the countryside
of the “Eastern Bloc”
Olev LIIVIK, Lords of the Countryside:
Personal Characteristics of the First Secretaries of the County Committees of
the Estonian Communist Party in the Second Half of the 1940s.......................59
Marius TĂRÎŢĂ, The Policy of the Party’s Organization in the Lipcani District of the Moldavian SSR
in 1944-1945...............................78
Bogdan IVAȘCU, The Achilles’ Heel: Difficulties in Establishing a Functional Party
Network in the Transylvanian Countryside (1945-1947)....................................................................93
Stanisław STĘPKA, Peasants in the Face of Activities
of the Polish United Workers' Party in Rural Areas
(1948-1989)......................114
Piotr SWACHA, United People`s Party Activists in the
Central Power Elite in Poland (1949-1989)................................................135
Marcin KRUSZYŃSKI, “Art for art’s sake” – how the
Unnatural Attempts of Transforming Peasants into Intelligentsia were
Implemented in Poland (1944-1956).....................................156
Agrarian reforms and collectivization of agriculture in
“Eastern Bloc”
Miroslaw KŁUSEK, Robert ANDRZEJCZYK, Attitudes of the
Landowners in Poland towards the Communist Decree of 6 September 1944 on the
Execution of Land Reform..................................................177
Sorin RADU, The Ploughmen’s Front and the Land Reform from 1945 in Romania…..................................................................191
Małgorzata MACHAŁEK, Stanisław JANKOWIAK, State
Agricultural Farms in Polish Agriculture – the Origin and Social-Economic
Consequences................................................................206
Žarko LAZAREVIĆ, Communist Agriculture between
Ideological Rigidity and Economic Rationality – the Case
of Private Agricultural Sector in
Slovenia/Yugoslavia.............................................228
Zsuzsanna VARGA, Three Waves of Collectivization in
one Country (Interactions of Political Practices and Peasants’ Resistance Strategies in Hungary in the “long 1950s”)..............................258
Csaba KOVÁCS, Complaints from the Final Period of
Hungarian Collectivisation..............................................................296
Róbert BALOGH, A Program for Afforestation:
Sovietisation, Knowledge and Work in Hungary,
1949-1959............................335
Political instruments of the communist regimes for
transforming the village: between coercion and resistance
Marína ZAVACKÁ, “How could we?” Explaining Faulty Steps, Mishits and other “Regrettable Deeds” in the Slovak
Countryside...........369
Jiří URBAN, Distrust as a Perception, Resistance as a
Response: the Introduction of Communist Politics in the East Bohemian Rural
Area...........................................................................395
Dariusz JAROSZ, Questioning the Persecutor-Victim
Paradigm: Polish Peasants versus the Authorities,
1945-1989.....................................................................428
Cosmin BUDEANCĂ, The Last Stage of Collectivization
of Agriculture in Romania. Repressive and Restrictive Methods against the Rural
Population....................................................................440
Valentin VASILE, The Rural Population under the
Surveillance of Securitate during the Totalitarian Regime in Romania
(1948-1989)...................................................................460
Dragoș PETRESCU, Commuting Villagers and Social
Protest: Peasant-Workers and Working-Class Unrest in Romania,
1965-1989.....................................................................497
Social change and rural mentality
Natalia JARSKA, Between the Rural Household and
Political Mobilization – The Circles of
Rural Housewives in Poland
1946-1989.....................................................................527
Éva CSESZKA, András SCHLETT, Tradition – Interest – Labour Organisation:
Transformation of Rural Mentality during the Period of Communism in
Hungary.....................................................547
Ágota Lídia ISPÁN, “It’s hard to do your duty here.” Cultured
Retail Trade in Hungary............................................................562
Cristina PETRESCU, Peasants into Agro-Industrial
Workers The Communist Modernization of Romanian Villages,
1974-1989.........594
Communist propaganda and representations of the countryside
in the official discourse in “Eastern Bloc”
Tomasz OSIŃSKI, Communist Propaganda and Landowners
during the Agricultural Reform in Poland (1944-1945)..............................621
Judit TÓTH, Kulaks in Political Cartoons of the
Rákosi-Era...........637
Manuela MARIN, Refashioning People in Collectivized
Countryside: Turks and Tatars in Dobruja during the
1950s..........................656
Klára LÁZOK, Community Homes and “Cultural” Education in the Rural World:
Communist Propaganda Clichés as Reflected in the “Kulturális
Útmutató” (“Îndrumătorul Cultural”) in the Years 1948-1949.....................................................................676
Eli PILVE, Ideological Upbringing in Estonian SSR
School Lessons Based on the Example of Extolling Soviet
Agriculture.........................690
Mihaela GRANCEA, Olga GRĂDINARU, The Collectivization
Process in the Soviet and Romanian Films. A Comparative
Perspective.........708
Zsuzsanna BORVENDÉG, Mária PALASIK, Hungary and Stalin’s Plan for the Transformation of Nature through
Propaganda....................740
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contributors..........................................................781
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