Description
Book Synopsis The collapse of Soviet influence and the disillusionment with socialism in the early 1990s led to ambitious programs of economic reform throughout Eastern Europe. The papers in this volume, written by anthropologists and sociologists with detailed first-hand knowledge of the rural areas concerned, explore the situation in several countries; account is also taken of the differences between them. Not only are reform policies considered in the light of actual developments and reactions of villagers to changing circumstances; actual processes of land reform, the emergence of new family farms, and the creation of new forms of co-operative and joint stock company are described and examined well.
Trade Review"This book successfully combines the main themes of land restitution, transformation and social change within a detailed case study and country-by-country analysis of these issues in a comprehensive though accessible way. This good book should prove useful to students of rural sociology and agricultural economics." Economics of Transition
Table of Contents Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction: Some Thoughts on Recent Land Reform in Eastern Europe
R. Abrahams
Chapter 1. Land Tenure and Citizenship in Tázlár
C. Hann
Chapter 2. Responses to "Democratic" Land Reforms in a Bulgarian Village
D. Kaneff
Chapter 3. The Privatisation and Market Transformation of Polish Agriculture
L. Kocik
Chapter 4. The Transition in Hungarian Agriculture 1990-1993
K. Kovács
Chapter 5. Aspects of the Restitution of Property and Land in Estonia
A. Kuddo
Chapter 6. Re-Defining Women's Work in Rural Poland
F. Pine
Chapter 7. Getting Land in Central Europe
N. Swain
Chapter 8. Decollectivisation and Total Scarcity in High Albania
C. DeWaal
List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index
