Lázár Vilmos szerk.: Termelőszövetkezettörténeti tanulmányok 1. (Mezőgazdaságtörténeti tanulmányok 6. Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum, Budapest, 1972)

Összefoglaló (angolul)

HISTORY OF THE HUNGARIAN COOPERATIVE FARMS Summary The Committee on Agrarian History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences decided in 1969 to write the history of the large-scale transformation of Hungarian agriculture. For this work it was considered indispensable to explore in different regions of the country the history of cooperative farms representing by and large the large-scale development of cooperative farms. In this volume of study report is presented on the history of the large-scale development of three cooperative farms, on the result of a sociological investigation performed in one of the cooperative farms and a study of comprehensive character is given concerning the major correlations of large-scale transformation in agriculture. Dr. Imre DIMÊNY, Minister of Agriculture and Food emphasizes in his preface that the initiative of the Academy was welcomed and encouraged by the Ministry. He deemed it essential to rely — when solwingthis task — on the living memory of the generation too which had had an active part in directing and excuting this immense transformation. Another reason the initiative was welcomed for is that — though history of various cooperative farms has already been written — the interesting studies, often worth of appreciation are not uniformly suitable for a further scientific treatment. It can be approved that the central scheme of monographs in preparation — as it appears also from the studies presented in this volume — comprises the thrilling process of cooperative farms becoming a large agricultural concern, which, naturally, is accompanied and completed by a change in the life attitude of the cooperative peasantry. It was for this reason that a scientific level treatment of the history of certain cooperative farms was supported by the Ministry both morally and financially. The Ministry considered it desirable that teachers of agrarian universities take part personally in this work, each undertaking the study of the large-scale development of a cooperative farm. In the spirit of the resolution taken by the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Worker's Party the higher educational institutions were to become in this way centres of scientific research too. Thus later on working parties of historigraphy were formed at the universities of Gödöllő, Debrecen and Keszthely and at the faculty of Mosonmagyaróvár. The working parties