Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. List of Maps viii
4. List of Tables ix
5. Introduction
6. The Collectivization of Agriculture in Eastern Europe: Entanglements and Transnational Comparisons 1
7. I. The Interwar Soviet Model and its Post-1945 Application in the Newly Annexed Territories
8. Collectivization in the Soviet Union: Specificities and Modalities 49
9. The Collectivization of Agriculture in the Baltic Soviet Republics, 1944–1953 79
10. II. Land Collectivization in Central Europe
11. The Collectivization of Agriculture in Poland: Causes of Defeat 113
12. Ideology and Asymmetrical Entanglements: Collectivization in the German Democratic Republic 147
13. Collectivization in Czechoslovakia in Comparative Perspective, 1949–1960 181
14. The Forced Collectivization of Agriculture in Hungary, 1948–1961 211
15. III. Land Collectivization in Southeastern Europe
16. The Collectivization of Agriculture in Romania, 1949–1962 251
17. Collectivization in Yugoslavia: Rethinking Regional and National Interests 293
18. Collectivization and Social Change in Bulgaria, 1940s–1950s 329
19. “Any Other Road Leads Only to the Restoration of Capitalism in the Countryside:” Land Collectivization in Albania 369
20. IV. Axes of Differentiation: Center and Periphery, “Class Struggle,” Social and Ethnic Cleavages
21. Collectivization as Social Practice: Historical Narratives and Competing Memories as Sources of Agency in the Collectivization Campaign in the GDR 401
22. The Appropriation and Modification of the “Soviet Model” of Collectivization: The Case of Hungary 433
23. Collectivization at the Grass Roots Level: State Planning and Popular Reactions in Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, and the GDR, 1948–1960 467
24. Eastern European Collectivization Campaigns Compared, 1945–1962 497
25. V. Appendix
26. About the Authors 535
27. Index 543