Agrarian Reform in Eastern Europe following World War I: Motives and Outcomes

Thompson, Saråhelen

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“…However, different state policies can be observed regarding the goals and means of these reforms. One of the most general motivations was rural poverty and presence of the rural proletariat due to the high ratios of land concentration in East Central Europe (Thompson 1993).…”

Section: Changing Borders Changing Development Patternsmentioning

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“…On the other hand, in the first Czechoslovak Republic a rather radical land distribution took place (Berend 1985). The land reform inevitably had a strong ethnical dimension, as the majority of the agricultural elite was Hungarian in the Slovak territories, and German in Bohemia and Moravia before WWI (Thompson 1993, Miller 2003and Sombati 2015. For example, on the southern part of Slovakia, which was reannexed to Hungary in 1938, the lands were owned almost entirely by Hungarians before WWI (since the locals primarily were Hungarians), while 25% of the land redistributed was given to local Slovaks, 18.2% to Slovak, Czech and Moravian colonists, and only 19% to local Hungarians (Simon 2009 and2014).…”

Section: Changing Borders Changing Development Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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On diverging roads? Patterns of territorial development in the Czechoslovak-Hungarian border zone (1910 – 1941)

Mikle¹

2022

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On diverging roads? Patterns of territorial development in the Czechoslovak-Hungarian border zone (1910 -1941) The paper investigates the transformation of territorial development disparities in the Hungarian-Czechoslovak border zone (the former territory of Esztergom and Komárom counties) from 1910 until 1941, based on a settlement-level quantitative database. In order to interpret statistical data, quantitative data analysis was integrated with a rural restructuring approach. Changes in the role of the state, economy and local societies are investigated in line with a multidimensional development index. Since the river Danube constituted the new state border from 1920, local societies were formed by different state policies: while the Hungarian government did not intend to change the land concentration, the Czechoslovak state carried out a rather radical land reform in order to dissolve large estates and promote agricultural smallholders (predominantly those belonging to the Czech and Slovak ethnicities). Changes in the multidimensional development index show that the level of land concentration and local characteristics of economic production (the ratio of non-agricultural population) can be consi-dered as decisive factors both in 1910 and 1941.

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Section: Changing Borders Changing Development Patternsmentioning

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On diverging roads? Patterns of territorial development in the Czechoslovak-Hungarian border zone (1910 – 1941)

Mikle¹

2022

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“…Wydaje siê, ¿e odtworzenie formalno-prawnego stanu posiadania gruntów by³o ³atwiejsze w krajach, które pojawi³y siê na mapie Europy po I wojnie wiatowej i gdzie w wyniku reform rolnych znacz¹co powiêkszono sektor prywatnych gospodarstw rodzinnych (Czechy, kraje ba³kañskie i nadba³tyckie) [Nowa Encyklopedia...1996, Roszkowski 1989, Thompson 1993, Vaskela 1996]. Z kolei jednak konsekwentne odtwarzanie gospodarstw rodzinnych wykreowa³o problem ekstremalnego rozdrobnienia gruntów (Albania, Rumunia).…”

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Transformacja ustrojowa rolnictwa w krajach Europy środkowo-wschodniej

Zadura

2009

Rocz. Nauk Rol., G Ekon. Rol.

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W artykule zaprezentowano syntezę doświadczeń krajów Europy Środkowo- Wschodniej, które w początkach ostatniej dekady minionego wieku podjęły wyzwanie przekształceń własnościowych w rolnictwie swoich krajów. Podstawą przekształceń było przywracanie praw własności (restytucja) do gruntów rolnych ich byłym właścicielom lub nadawanie praw własności do gruntów innym uprawnionym beneficjentom transformacji. W artykule wyodrębniono cechy wspólne transformacji w wybranych grupach krajów oraz przedstawiono przykłady krajów realizujących koncepcję przemian odmienną od dominującego modelu transformacji.

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“…According to Stavrianos, by 1926, 80.6 per cent of the peasants owned the land they tilled, 16.8 per cent owned plots but were willing to rent more and 2.6 per cent rented all the land they worked. By 1934, when the Military League established a dictatorship, 94 per cent of the land consisted of holdings less than 300 decares with 87 per cent at a size less than 100 decares (Thompson 1993). In 1941, distribution of land was still an issue of concern as Article 1 of The Land Law of 1941 stated that its goal was the creation of a state land fund to fight the hunger for land and unemployment in agriculture (V'lchanov 1954, 93).…”

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Two essays on the land tenure institutions of Bulgaria: evolution, land fragmentation and land productivity

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Agrarian Reform in Eastern Europe following World War I: Motives and Outcomes

Cited by 6 publications

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On diverging roads? Patterns of territorial development in the Czechoslovak-Hungarian border zone (1910 – 1941)

On diverging roads? Patterns of territorial development in the Czechoslovak-Hungarian border zone (1910 – 1941)

Transformacja ustrojowa rolnictwa w krajach Europy środkowo-wschodniej

Two essays on the land tenure institutions of Bulgaria: evolution, land fragmentation and land productivity

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