Introduction ARND BAUERKÄMPER and CONSTANTIN IORDACHI The Collectivization of Agriculture in Eastern Europe: Comparisons and Cross-Border Entanglements I. The Soviet Interwar Model and its Application in Post-1945 Soviet Union LYNNE VIOLA Collectivization in the Soviet Union: Specificities and Modalities DAVID FEEST The Collectivization of Agriculture in the Baltic Soviet Republics, 1944–1953 II. Land Collectivization in East Central Europe DARIUSZ JAROSZ The Collectivization of Agriculture in Poland: Causes of Defeat JENS SCHÖNE Ideology and Asymmetrical Entanglements: Collectivization in the German Democratic Republic JAN RYCHLIK Collectivization in Czechoslovakia in Comparative Perspective, 1949–1960 JÓZSEF Ö. KOVÁCS The Forced Collectivization of Agriculture in Hungary, 1948–1961 III. Land Collectivization in Southeastern Europe CONSTANTIN IORDACHI and DORIN DOBRINCU The Collectivization of Agriculture in Romania, 1949–1962 MELISSA K. BOKOVOY Collectivization in Yugoslavia: Rethinking Regional and National Interests MIHAIL GRUEV Collectivization and Social Change in Bulgaria, 1940s–1950s ÖRJAN SJÖBERG “Any other road leads only to the Restoration of Capitalism in the Countryside”: Land Collectivization in Albania IV. Axes of Differentiation: Social Conflicts, Center and Periphery, “Class Struggle,” Social and Ethnic Cleavages ARND BAUERKÄMPER Collectivization as Social Practice: Historical Narratives and Competing Memories as Sources of Agency in the Collectivization Campaign in the GDR ZSUZSANNA VARGA The Appropriation and Modification of the “Soviet Model” of Collectivization: The Case of Hungary GREGORY R. WITKOWSKI Collectivization at the Grass Roots Level: State Planning and Popular Reactions in Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, and the GDR, 1948–1960 NIGEL SWAIN Eastern European Collectivization Campaigns Compared, 1945–1962 V. Appendix About the Authors Index