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Green Barons, Force-of-Circumstance Entrepreneurs, Impotent Mayors
Nigel Swain
其他書名
Rural Change in the Early Years of Post-Socialist Capitalist Democracy
出版Central European University Press, 2013-10-10
主題History / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralHistory / Europe / EasternBusiness & Economics / Industries / AgribusinessPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismHistory / Europe / GeneralHistory / Modern / 21st Century
ISBN61552257109786155225710
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nf0OEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.