A01=Ildiko Vasary
agrarian transformation
agricultural changes
Author_Ildiko Vasary
Average Income
Category=JP
Chief Agronomist
Closer Family Circle
Compulsory Delivery Quotas
Defensive Strategies
Delivery Quotas
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government planning
Great Divide
household economies
Household Plots
Individual Peasant Farming
labor diversification
Lake Balaton
Land Recipients
Large Families
Life Style
Middle Peasant
Month's Wage
Non-agricultural Employment
Non-agricultural Labour Market
Nonagricultural Employment
Occupational Combinations
Peasant Family Economy
Plot Farmers
plot farming
postwar Hungarian agricultural change
reciprocity networks
rural Hungary
rural sociology
social change
Socialist Answer
socialist policies
Vice Versa
Vineyard Plots
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367014063
- Weight: 760g
- Dimensions: 142 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The aims of postwar Eastern Europe governments included, first and foremost, the restructuring and controlling of economic and social domains. Since 1945, planning in rural Hungary has been focused on the collectivization of agriculture. However, activities at the village level not only deflected the intended outcomes of government policies, but also generated new, innovative results. Families managed to redirect their efforts into a variety of job sectors and to forge essential ties with the industrial, non-agricultural job sectors. Labor withheld from the collectives was invested in plot farming, a development that proved of paramount importance to both the national and household economies. Today, most rural families continue to participate in more than one sector of production, making it difficult for the central government to design selective policies aimed at the "peasant." The broadening of Hungary's interpretation and application of socialist principles was largely a result of the ways in which government plans were reinterpreted and reapplied at the local level. By examining agricultural changes in one Hungarian village, Dr. Vasary explores some of the possibilities and limitations inherent in collectivization.
