Original scientific paper
Social Changes in Rural Croatia Coincident with the Carrying out of Agrarian Reform and Colonization
Marijan Maticka
Abstract
The author has set out to consider social change in rural Croatia coincident with the carrying out of agrarian reform and colonization, from the standpoint that agrarian reform and colonization are a part of the social changes which took place in Yugoslavia after the successful outcome of the People's Liberation War and that these changes are founded upon that alteration of social relationships which gives to the People Liberation War the distinguishing features of socialist revolution.
Thus, because of the complex nature of the problems, the author has not taken into account all the relevant questions, but has identified, in the first place, certain problems arising from the analysis of the creation of the land fund within agrarian reform and colonization. This analysis has shown in what measure particular categories of land-owners were present in rural Croatia, in what regions, and what kind of land thy owned: it has shown in other words which categories of land owners lost their land and who were the beneficiaries of agrarian reform and colonization.
The carrying out of the land reform dealt a powerful blow to the capitalist elements in rural regions and basic changes in the relationships of ownership took place at three levels. A change took place in the size of peasant possessions, a direct stimulus was given to the formation of peasant workers' co-operatives and a considerable area of land remained in the possession of the state. The author has drawn special attention to the extent and regional characteristics of the results of agrarian reform in relation to the local agrarian interests and colonization within Croatia.
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Hrčak ID:
219044
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Publication date:
9.11.1977.
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