Many Shades of Red

Mieke Meurs

doi:10.5771/9781461608417

Summary

This volume provides a radical and timely corrective to received wisdom about the seemingly inevitable transition from communism to democratic capitalism. Arguing against popular misconceptions that portray collectivized agriculture as an unqualified failure that followed a monolithic Soviet model, the contributors draw upon newly available local sources to illuminate the costs, benefits, successes, and failures of cooperative agriculture. They highlight the wide variety of state policies, local responses, and economic outcomes, as well as the influence of local geography, political structures, and economic institutions in each region. Meurs provides an institutionalist analysis of both the causes and impacts of policy differences, drawing lessons of continuing relevance to the many countries in which agrarian reform remains a controversial issue.

Contributions by: Victor Danilov, Carmen Diana Deere, Stanka Dobreva, Veska Kouzhouharova, Imre Kovach, Justin Lin, Mieke Meurs, and Niurka Perez.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 1999
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8476-9039-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-0841-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 251
Product type: Edited Book

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Why Reexamine Collectivization Now? No access
2. Why Collectivization? No access
3. The Task of this Book No access
4. Brief Overview of the Cases No access
5. The Viability of Collective Agriculture: What Lessons Can Be Drawn? No access
6. The Waning of Collectivization No access
7. Summary No access
8. Notes No access
1. The Russian Village before the Revolution No access
2. The Revolution and Its Aftermath No access
3. The Cooperative Plan in Theory and Practice No access
4. The Great Turning Point in Agriculture: 1929 No access
5. Dekulakification No access
6. Organized Starvation No access
7. The Completion of Agricultural Collectivization No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. Notes No access
1. Background to Collectivization No access
2. Collectivization of Bulgarian Agriculture: 1944-1958 No access
3. Second Stage of Collectivization Process: 1959-1967 No access
4. From Collectives to State Farms: 1968-1989 No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. Agriculture in Hungary before Collectivization No access
2. The Collectivization No access
3. Adjustments after the Mid-1960s No access
4. Success and Failure (1963-1994) No access
5. Notes No access
1. Economic Development Strategy and the Role of Agriculture No access
2. Rural Institutional Changes and Development Policies No access
3. Farming Institutions, Performance, and Income Distribution No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. Cuba's Agrarian Structure Prior to 1959 No access
2. Cuba's Agrarian Reform No access
3. The Beginning of Collectivization: 1977-1980 No access
4. The Expansion of the Cooperative Movement: 1981-1983 No access
5. The Period of Reflection: 1984-1987 No access
6. Persisting Problems of the Cooperative Movement: 1988-1991 No access
7. Cooperative Development Viewed from Below No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. Notes No access
1. Some Lessons from History No access
2. Looking Forward No access
3. Notes No access
Index No access Pages 247 - 250
About the Contributors No access Pages 251 - 251