Sugarland : the transformation of the countryside in Communist Albania /
"In this historical monograph on non-urban communist Albania, Artan Hoxha discusses the ambitious development project that turned a swampland into a site of sugar production after 1945. The author seeks to free the history of Albanian communism from the stereotypes that still circulate about it...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2023. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| Summary: | "In this historical monograph on non-urban communist Albania, Artan Hoxha discusses the ambitious development project that turned a swampland into a site of sugar production after 1945. The author seeks to free the history of Albanian communism from the stereotypes that still circulate about it with stigmas of an aberration, paranoia, extreme nationalism, and xenophobia. This micro-history of the agricultural and industrial transformation of a zone in southeastern Albania, explores a wide range of issues including modernization, development, and social, cultural, and economic policies. In addition to analyzing the collectivization of agriculture, Hoxha shows how communism affected the lives of ordinary rural people. As elsewhere in the Communist Bloc, the Albanian regime borrowed developmental projects from the past and implemented them using social mobilization and a command economy. The abundant archival resources along with interviews in the field attest to the authorities' efforts to increase consumption and to radically transform people's tastes. But the book argues that despite the repressive environment, people involved in the sugar project were not simply passive receivers of models from the nation's capital. The author also describes that-in defiance of Cold War bipolarity-technological requirements and social policy considerations required a degree of engagement with the broader world"-- No detailed description available for "Sugarland". |
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| Item Description: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 05, 2023). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 293 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789633866177 9633866170 |
| Author Notes: | Artan R. Hoxha is a historian of Southeastern Europe with a strong thematic interest in the social and cultural transformations during the 20th-century. |