PROCESUL COLECTIVIZĂRII AGRICULTURII ÎN LOCALITĂŢILE DĂMIENI ŞI CĂLUGĂRENI (JUDEŢUL MUREŞ)
THE PROCESS OF NATIONALIZATION OF AGRICULTURE IN THE SETTLEMENTS OF DĂMIENI AND CĂLUGĂRENI (MUREŞ COUNTY)

Summary/Abstract: The present paper attempts to re-enact the nationalization process which occurred in the villages of Damieni and Calugareni, situated on the bank of the Upper Niraj, settlements which were administratively integrated in the last phase of transformations in the Targu Mures rayon, in the Mures Autonomous Hungarian Region. The conducted research focuses on two main topics: the consequences of the communist legislation, its impact on the investigated settlements and the evolution of the socialist agricultural structures in consonance with the Stalinist pattern. The legislation of the quotas and the suppression under any form of those considered to be „chiaburi” (wealthy people), led to a certain flexibility on behalf of the townsmen, who would first join associations (a mass phenomena at Damieni) throughout the year 1960, until the Collective Agricultural Household was established by the end of 1962 in both settlements and encompassed them both almost entirely. The merger of the „30th December” collective agricultural household from Damieni and that of „Lenin’s Way” in Calugareni, in August 1962, represented the first phase of this process and did not bring about any major changes. To investigate the facts we resorted to an innovative material from the National Romanian Archives, the Mures branch, as well as to a less conventional source of oral history, the testimonies, completing 18 interviews with the persons that were directly involved in the analyzed process. The present study represents to a certain extent a history of the nameless, which means to round out in detail the conventional official history.

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