Beyond The Plan: Social Change In A Hungarian Village

by Ildiko Vasary

Overview

This book explores some of the possibilities and limitations inherent in collectivization by examining agricultural changes in one Hungarian village, Pecsely in which the transition from traditional peasant existence to a socialist society and collectivized agriculture could be traced.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429712869
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/10/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	326
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Vasary, Ildiko

Table of Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- Antecedents -- The Three Villages in the Valley -- The Land Reform of 1945 -- Agricultural Collectivization -- Agrarian Policies in the 1950s -- The First Phase of Collectivization -- The Second Phase of Collectivization -- The Three Collectives of Pécsely -- The First Merger -- Internal Organization in the New Rákoczi Collective -- The Jókai Collective -- The Collectives’ Dependence and Independence -- Relationship of Members to the Collective -- Beyond the Collective -- Plot Farming: The ‘Second Economy’ -- The Small Giant: Form and Function of Plot Farming -- The Integration of the Plots and the Collective -- Household Economy and Small Farming -- Plot Farming and Development of Income Differentials -- Networks of Reciprocity -- The ‘Elite’ of the Széphegy -- The Invisible Population -- Popular and Official Evaluation of Plot Farming -- Non-Agricultural Labour -- The Collective and the Community -- Under One Roof? -- Community, Society: Institutions -- Community, Society: Competing Paradigms -- The Traditional Paradigm -- The Socialist Paradigm -- The Western Urban Paradigm -- Social Differentiation -- Community, Society: Voluntary Associations -- Conclusion