Success and Failure of the Hungarian Agrarian Model,1960-1990
Success and Failure of the Hungarian Agrarian Model,1960-1990
Author(s): András SchlettSubject(s): History
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Rural Development; Socialist Agriculture; Green Revolution; Innovation; Professional Agriculture; Production Systems; Taylorism
Summary/Abstract: In the centre of the analysis stands the agricultural reconstruction of the sixties and seventies, moreover the eighties when the crisis of the Hungarian agrarian model emerged, and demands for economic and also political reforms could be felt. The aim of the essay is to demonstrate the characteristics of industrial like productive systems gaining ground in the Hungarian agriculture from the beginning of the sixties. The article concentrates upon the emphasis and analysis of those factors which determined the offset and development of the new production organizing form in a special way. It presents what role industrializing played in the evolution, successes and failures of the given development models, and what agent role it played in the enterprise system established in the sixties and seventies and in the organization of different integration forms. In the end, the history of industry like agriculture – as an outbreak attempt – can partly give an answer to the deeper correspondences of the operational problems of the socialist economic system.
Journal: Arhivele Totalitarismului
- Issue Year: XX/2012
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 96-108
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English
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