Peasants and Communists: Politics and Ideology in the Yugoslav Countryside, 1941-1953 (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies)
by Melissa Katherine Bokovoy
Category: History

Melissa K. Bokovoy explores the dynamic relationship between the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) and Yugoslavia's peasantry majority from 1941-1953. She challenges current explanations for the party's decision to end all efforts at collectivization. Her argument rests on an extensive examination of the uneasy coalition between a radical, revolutionary elite, hoping to move from a predominantly rural country to a modernized state, and an insurgent peasantry, utterly resistant to change.