Peasants and communists
Subtitle: politics and ideology in the Yugoslav countryside, 1941-1953
By: Melissa K. Bokovoy.
Series: Pitt series in Russian and East European studies; Series in Russian and East European studies.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press; Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Communism and agriculture -- Yugoslavia -- History; Peasantry -- Yugoslavia -- History; Yugoslavia -- Politics and government -- 1945-1980
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: Peasants and Communists: a dubious alliance, 1941-1944; title: Promises fulfilled: agrarian reform and colonization; title: In search of an agrarian policy; title: The road to collectivization?; title: The alliance betrayed; title: Ideology reconsidered; title: Conclusion.