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“From 1948 to 1965 Communists provoked class war in the East European country‐ side by seizing things peasants treasured: land and livestock. Until now, with few notable exceptions, historians have taken little notice, preoccupied as they were with famous events in cities. With this volume all of that is changed. Leading experts from a multitude of countries pursue key questions raised by this revolution in structures and practices: how a minority subdued a majority; how starvation was avoided, and, most important, why the new regime took root so deeply that in retrospect many now claim to miss it.Throughout authors take careful note of each other's work, making the volume not only peerless social history, but also a focused, absorbing, and rarely practiced feat of comparative history. The sources are fresh, the writing lucid, and the editing of the highest standard. This is a book no one interested in modern European history can ignore.” John Connelly, University of California at Berkeley, author of Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945–1956 “A provocative and highly informative collection of comparative historical studies, with both regional and country‐specific focus, conceptually original and method‐ ologically impressive, this volume adds significantly to the growing literature on the social transformations imposed by Leninist revolutionary projects in East‐ Central Europe. I recommend it most warmly to all those who want to understand the diversity involved in the practices of collectivization as a strategy of building state socialism. Historians, political scientists, sociologists, economists, and anthro‐ pologists will greatly benefit from this important book.” VladimirTism neanu, University of Maryland (College Park), author of ă Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism Central European University Press Budapest–NewYork Sales and information: ceupress@ceu.hu Website: http://www.ceupress.com Central European University Press 9 786155 225635 0 0 0 0 9 I S B N 9 7 8 - 6 1 5 - 5 2 2 5 - 6 3 - 5 ...

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