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Bitter Harvest - Antecedents and Consequences of Property Reforms in Postsocialist Poland (Paperback)
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Bitter Harvest - Antecedents and Consequences of Property Reforms in Postsocialist Poland (Paperback)
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Bitter Harvest, a historical ethnographic study, examines the
property changes prompted by the early post-socialist neoliberal
reforms designed to build capitalism in Poland. Historically, the
book traces the halting but steady emergence of privatization and
liberalization, even under socialism, and how these anticipated the
reforms of the post-socialist period. Contrary to the view that the
1989 post-socialist policy represented a radical departure from
former state socialist policies via the importation of Western
"shock therapy" reforms, including the key economic institution of
private property, this book dispenses with the sharp divide between
the "socialist past" and "capitalist present" and argues the
lasting importance of these historical antecedents in shaping both
post-socialist policy and responses to it. Ethnographically, the
book provides a detailed account of the different yet
interdependent ways the post-socialist reform program influenced
existing agricultural property forms-small farmers, production
cooperatives, and state farms-leading in each case to unexpected
economic results and political contestation of the policy
objectives. This historical and ethnographic study of multiple
forms of ownership poses a challenge to the common conception of a
homogenized socialism based on state property. It also refutes the
reductionist representation of the reality after socialism as the
creation of Western-style, private property-based economic systems,
unaffected by the unique Eastern European sociopolitical context.
Instead, looking at Poland's property changes through the eyes and
experiences of diverse agricultural owners, this book employs the
notion of conjoint property to unpack the complexity of ownership
under socialism and theorize its evolution into an incomplete
exclusive ownership after socialism. This new conceptual framework
of property changes in early transition helps us to understand
current developments in Eastern Europe as it integrates with the
European Union and intersects with global capitalism. It further
sheds light on the limits of the universality of the Western notion
of private property.
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