Kaposi, Zoltán - Rab, Virág (eds.): Different Approaches to Economic and Social Changes: New Research Issues, Sources and Results. Working Group of Economic and Social History, Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Pécs, Pécs., 2022

During the harsh Stalinization from 1948 agriculture had to be collectivized while land was not n... more During the harsh Stalinization from 1948 agriculture had to be collectivized while land was not nationalized by decree as the Bolsheviks did in Russia in 1917. The Soviet legal system was a pattern for jurists but the differences made the transition to “socialism” more rugged and controversial. The legal scholars had to interpret a situation which had to develop further to full “socialization”. In order to do that, a “cooperative law” and a “land law” had to be created and taught as part of “agricultural law”.

Keywords: Stalinism, collectivization, NEP, land ownership, agricultural law, codification