Abstract
The success of Hungarian collectives in the 1960s and through the 1980s, following the adoption of a particular agricultural policy by the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party over the period from 1945 until the revolution of 1956, represented a victory for communism. Examination of resources from the party archives, journals and newspapers, reveals debates between hard-liners and reformers on the structure and implementation of collective farm policies, and illustrates how the early 1950s reform programme reappeared in the post-revolutionary period through the 1957 Agrarian Theses, and framed the debate over a new course for Hungarian agriculture. The resulting collectivization programme represented a compromise between hardliners and reformers, emphasizing collectivization and including aspects of the Agrarian Theses, such as agricultural investment incentives and the promise of a higher quality of life.
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