Transforming Rural Societies: Agarian Property and Agrarianism in East Central Europe in the Ninteenth and Twentieth Centuries

This volume concentrates on the interrelations between changing property regimes and so called -agrarianist- development strategies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The expropriation of the former feudal classes starting in 1918 was combined with a massive nationalist mobilization of the r [...]
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This volume concentrates on the interrelations between changing property regimes and so called -agrarianist- development strategies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The expropriation of the former feudal classes starting in 1918 was combined with a massive nationalist mobilization of the rural masses, thus threatening the property of ethnic minorities, and causing the rise of fascism and national chauvinism. In connection with missing improvements in rural production and the break-up of traditional social bonds, the peasants' standard of living deteriorated and they often turned against modernization. After World War II these reforms considerably influenced the degree of collectivization in the communist period as well as the redistribution of formerly expropriated land during the social and intellectual transformation process in the 1990s.