Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe

Constantin Iordachi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University and President of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies.Arnd Bauerkämper is Professor of Modern European History at the Freie Universität Berlin. Author of: Ländliche Gesellschaft in der kommunistischen Diktatur. Zwangsmodernisierung und Tradition in Brandenburg 1945–1963. Cologne: Böhlau, 2002; Die Sozialgeschichte der DDR. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2005; Das umstrittene Gedächtnis. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2012.

• List of Maps, List of Tables, Introduction, I. The Interwar Soviet Model and its Post-1945 Application in the Newly Annexed Territories, II. Land Collectivization in Central Europe, III. Land Collectivization in Southeastern Europe, IV. Axes of Differentiation: Center and Periphery, “Class Struggle,” Social and Ethnic Cleavages, V. Appendix, About the Authors, Index

"The volume helps to patch the hole in contemporary examinations of the change of systems that often overlook a legacy of rural transformation, and opens the way for additional anthropological and sociological studies. References and copious footnotes make for a comprehensive bibliography of the agrarian question under communism. Summing up: recommended."