Book contents
- Remaking Ukraine after World War II
- New Studies in European History
- Remaking Ukraine after World War II
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Translation and Transliteration
- Abbreviations and Translated Terms from Russian and Ukrainian
- Introduction
- Part I The Battle for Land between the People and Local and Central Soviet Authorities
- Chapter 1 A Brief Survey of Illegal Appropriations of Collective Farmland by Local State and Party Officials
- Chapter 2 Taking Land: Officials’ Illegal Appropriations and Starving People in Raska, Bila Tserkva and Elsewhere
- Chapter 3 Taking Land Back: The People and Central Authorities’ Recovery of Land and Prosecution of Local Party and State Officials
- Part II The Cost of the Battle for Land to People and the State
- Conclusion
- Appendix Archival Source Locations and Guide for Further Research
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 1 - A Brief Survey of Illegal Appropriations of Collective Farmland by Local State and Party Officials
from Part I - The Battle for Land between the People and Local and Central Soviet Authorities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 January 2021
Book contents
- Remaking Ukraine after World War II
- New Studies in European History
- Remaking Ukraine after World War II
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Translation and Transliteration
- Abbreviations and Translated Terms from Russian and Ukrainian
- Introduction
- Part I The Battle for Land between the People and Local and Central Soviet Authorities
- Chapter 1 A Brief Survey of Illegal Appropriations of Collective Farmland by Local State and Party Officials
- Chapter 2 Taking Land: Officials’ Illegal Appropriations and Starving People in Raska, Bila Tserkva and Elsewhere
- Chapter 3 Taking Land Back: The People and Central Authorities’ Recovery of Land and Prosecution of Local Party and State Officials
- Part II The Cost of the Battle for Land to People and the State
- Conclusion
- Appendix Archival Source Locations and Guide for Further Research
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter provides a historical background of the enduring devastation of the post-World War II agricultural sector in Ukraine that encouraged local authorities to pursue various policies to organise their economies in opposition to laws and practice of their superior central authorities. This chapter provides the proper context to understand the case studies analysed in the following chapters.
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- Remaking Ukraine after World War IIThe Clash of Local and Central Soviet Power, pp. 37 - 52Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021