By Melissa Bokovoy
The writer explores the dynamic dating among the Communist get together of Yugoslavia and the country's peasantry majority from 1941-1953. She demanding situations causes for the party's determination to finish efforts at collectivization, studying their uneasy coalition with a peasantry proof against swap.
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He wrote, "The old organs served the occupiers; it is necessary to create new ones to serve the people. "38 In the hinterlands of western Serbia, the people were the peasants. Kardelj explained the NOOs' responsibilities: (1) The NOOs organize the activity of the whole people, so that our partisans will be supplied with everything they need. (2) They maintain order in the rear . . along with the help of the people's guards, and lead the struggle against all the forces of plunder, exploitation, speculation, and the activity of the fifth column.
The opportunity to do research in Yugoslavia was made possible by a grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board. The University of New Mexico's Resource Allocation Board gave me the funds to Page x do additional research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. I would like to acknowledge the many scholars, archivists, librarians, and their staffs who assisted me during my work at the Archive of Yugoslavia, the Archive of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, the Institute of Contemporary History in Belgrade, and the Archive of the Institute for the History of the Workers' Movement of Croatia in Zagreb.
Bokovoy University of Pittsburgh Press Page iv Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa. Bokovoy. p. cm. (Pitt series in Russian and East European studies) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. Commuinism and agricultureYugoslaviaHistory. YugoslaviaPolitics and government1945-1980. Series: Series in Russian and East European studies. 5'633'0949709045dc21 97-33877 A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Page v For my mother, Barbara, my aunt, Mary Beth, and my grandmother, Mary Page vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi List of Abbreviations xvii Chapter 1 Peasants and Communists: A Dubious Alliance 1 Chapter 2 Promises Fulfilled: Agrarian Reform and Colonization 29 Chapter 3 In Search of an Agrarian Policy 55 Chapter 4 The Road to Collectivization?