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 4 - The Cost of Taking Land: The Damage Caused by Illegal Appropriations of Collective Farmland to Kolkhozniki, Communities and the State
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 demonstrates how independent initiatives such as appropriations by local authorities were pursued to deal with food crises, but instead may have exacerbated them. This problem was caused mainly by officials in Kyiv Oblast continuing with this policy when they did not need to. From 1948, central pressure eased on food collections across the Ukrainian countryside. This reduced the need for continuing self-supply at the local level. Continuing to keep appropriated land and refusing to assist farms in this period when their successful reconstruction was more feasible than before imperilled the farms and the broader localities of which they were part long after the crisis in worker food allocations had passed.
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- Remaking Ukraine after World War IIThe Clash of Local and Central Soviet Power, pp. 121 - 146Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021