Román János (szerk.): Borsodi levéltári évkönyv 4. (Miskolc, 1981)
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By early December polarization of the political fronts had gathered speed. An important feature of the situation was that the right wing had already lost its mass influence and communists had not recovered their mass influence yet. At the end of November communists thought the time to be ripe for breaking up the compromise made with revisionists. The president of the County Workers’ Council attempted to stabilize his shaky right basis in order to be protected from the attacks of the left wing; he had worked out and published the programme of the county workers’ council. The county workers’ council and those in the factories of the county turned down KMT’s calling for strike on 8 December. Between 9 and 11 December the right wing started bloody disturbances. They were not able, however, to make workers join either the strike declared by KMT or the affrays. Their failure between 9 and 11 December indicated the political defeat of the counterrevolution. THE POSITION OF FARMERS’ CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN THE COUNTY BORSOD-ABAUJ-ZEMPLÉN FROM THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION OF 1956 TO THE COMPLETION OF CONSOLIDATION In autumn 1956 a large-scale process of decomposition began in co-operatives of the county, which besides attacks of the counter-revolution, was due to the immanent contradictions of the movement resulting from the defective economic policy of the fifties. The large decrease in the number of members and areas of state farms went with a fall in instruments of production and in common property. All this made great difficulties in the conditions for fruitful farming in co-operative farms. In line with the process of decomposition there was an increase in the number of individual farmers. State support and guaranteeing the security of production made farmers more interested in production. Favourable conditions caused part of the farmers to think of individual farming as capable of long continuance. A special group was formed in the county by those leading a double life, who, in order to complete their income, made use of their arable land of minimal size and with the help of their double income they maintained their unprofitable possession. Surviving farms became more homogenous politically, they got more and more state support during consolidation, which had resulted in the economic and political stabilization of collective farms by the end of 1959. By the end of the consolidation period farmers’ co-operative movement had become a decisive factor of agriculture in the county. György Madarász 21* 323
