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
- Part II The Cost of the Battle for Land to People and the State
- Chapter 4 The Cost of Taking Land: The Damage Caused by Illegal Appropriations of Collective Farmland to Kolkhozniki, Communities and the State
- Chapter 5 Then and Now: The Shaping of Contemporary Ukraine in the Post-War Crises
- Conclusion
- Appendix Archival Source Locations and Guide for Further Research
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 5 - Then and Now: The Shaping of Contemporary Ukraine in the Post-War Crises
from Part II - The Cost of the Battle for Land to People and the State
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 January 2021
- 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
- Part II The Cost of the Battle for Land to People and the State
- Chapter 4 The Cost of Taking Land: The Damage Caused by Illegal Appropriations of Collective Farmland to Kolkhozniki, Communities and the State
- Chapter 5 Then and Now: The Shaping of Contemporary Ukraine in the Post-War Crises
- Conclusion
- Appendix Archival Source Locations and Guide for Further Research
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter reflects on the long-term impacts in contemporary Ukraine of the post-war developments described throughout the book. It traverses between contemporary accounts of the areas discussed in this book and their post-war developments, which look very different in Raska and Bila Tserkva. All of the farms reconstructed in 1948 began folding from 1950 onwards. They were swallowed up as part of Khrushchev’s 1950 campaign to amalgamate small farms into larger ones, forsaking them to the fate from which he and the Council on Collective Farm Affairs had saved them two years earlier. In Raska at least, the kolkhozniki kept their homes, land and graves, while many in Bila Tserkva were not so lucky. This set these areas on divergent historical paths that this chapter follows into the present.
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- Remaking Ukraine after World War IIThe Clash of Local and Central Soviet Power, pp. 147 - 181Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021