Green Barons, Force-of-Circumstance Entrepreneurs, Impotent Mayors : : Rural Change in the Early Years of Post-Socialist Capitalist Democracy / / Nigel Swain.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Swain, Nigel,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (412 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Tables and Maps --; Preface --; Chapter 1. Politics, Policies and Legal Measures --; Chapter 2. Common General Findings --; Chapter 3. Bulgaria --; Chapter 4. Czech Republic --; Chapter 5. Hungary --; Chapter 6. Poland --; Chapter 7. Romania --; Chapter 8. Slovakia --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index of Research Villages --; General Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9786155225710; 9783110780550
• DOI: 10.1515/9786155225710
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Nigel Swain.

An exemplary study in comparative contemporary history, this monograph looks at rural change in six countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. In the 1990s most of these nations experienced a fourth radical restructuring of agricultural relations in the twentieth century, and all went through the dramatic transition from communism to capitalism. The author analyzes attempts to activate democracy on a local level and recreate farming structures and non-agricultural businesses based on private ownership and private enterprise. He describes the emergence of a new business class that seeks to dominate local government structures; the recuperation of former communist farming entities by former managers; and the transformation of peasants into rural citizens, who nevertheless remain the underdogs. Swain exposes common features as well as specific divergences between the six countries; he portrays the winners, losers and engineers of transformations. He situates his themes in a wider context that will appeal to a broad range of social scientists and historians.