Kothencz Kelemen (szerk.): Családi csokrok. A 9. Duna-Tisza közi nemzetközi néprajzi nemzetiségkutató konferencia (Baja, 2014. július 17-18.) előadásai (Baja, 2015)

Ö. Kovács József: Munka a "közösben". Kollektivizálás a bajai régióban (1948-1968)

József Ö. Kovács Collectivization as Social Practice The Case of Baja Region, 1948-1968

One of the most comprehensive social operation in the process of Soviétisation was the liquidation of traditional peasant society. The author uses primarily contemporaneous witnesses from different angles to prove that the mass annihilation of privately owned farms, and their merging into collective lands were only possible by coercion and means of administrative, psychological and physical terror. Although the party-state had confiscated the means of production, it was unable to control the production process, since the most important element - human resources - were less dedicated to productivity, having been forced to cede to the state their property, and with it, their traditional agricultural system and practice. [Translated by the author]

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