Title: Peasants and communists
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: History, Politics and government, Peasantry, Communism and agriculture, Peasants, Peasants, yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, politics and government, Yugoslavia, history
Places: Yugoslavia
Time periods: 1945-1980
LC classification: HX550.A37 B65 1998