Sociology and Space, No. 143, 1999.
Review article
Croatian Peasantry, Village and Agriculture in Rudolf Bićanić's Scientific Works
Petar Grahovac
Abstract
Works on agrarian economy and rural sociology have a particular place in totality of work
of Rudolf Bićanić, great Croatian scientist and politician, and above all one of the greatest
Croatian names in economics and legal science. Answers to questions like: how do the
“country people” live, do these people have “bread and water”, what should be done that
the peasants be equal in substantial conditions and in political life with other social classes,
what to do that they don’t sell their products below the market price, what to do to
annul privileges of town over village, those of industry, trade and banks over agriculture,
of capital over work, of the rich over the poor, and to similar ones are predominating in
these works.
His researches of the village and of peasantry are not mere reflections but researches
founded on empirically collected data (facts), especially on inquiries in excellent survey
researches and on his personal observations to which he came following his own guideline
- “one must go among the people and see how do they live”.
In Bićanić’s researches of agriculture in Croatian spaces and in his works resulting from
those researches a historic dimension is clearly expressed as well as comparative analysis
of situation in agriculture and its development. On this basis he used to give concrete
answers to numerous questions concerning improvement of agriculture in Croatia and in
former Yugoslavia.
Keywords
Rudolf Bićanić; Croatian economist; sociologist and politician; contribution to agrarian economy and rural sociology
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119965
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Publication date:
5.3.1999.
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