Colectivizarea agriculturii în România: formă a represiunii comuniste. Cazul special al Gospodăriei Agricole Colective „Drumul fericirii” din Comuna Boteni, Raionul Mușcel, Regiunea Argeș
Collectivisation of agriculture in Romania: a form of Communist repression. The special case of the Collective Agricultural Farm “The Road to Happiness [Drumul fericirii]” from Boteni Commune, Muscel District, Argeș County

Summary/Abstract: The research of the process of collectivisation of agriculture in Boteni commune is limited to the analysis of a larger area, that of the north of the Argeș region, especially the Muscel district and is a less privileged historiographical approach at present, due to the lack of sci entific papers to address this complex phenomenon, having as area of interest the vast territory of the region. Therefore, the challenges of the topic were multiple: mapping the means of party state interference in rural areas; exposing and analyzing the Communist legislation regarding collectivisation, but also identifying some determining factors of issuing various legislative acts; identifying the collectivisation strategies used by the Communist authorities in the region; revealing the manner in which the above orders were applied at party and administrative decision making levels, from the center to the periphery; analysing the dynamics of the establishment of cooperative agricultural units at the level of Muscel district and Argeș region as a whole; drawing conclusions on the social life and the economic situation of the peasant during the process of scheduled modernisation. From this perspective, in the evolution of the collectivisation process in the Argeș region, a special case was presented by the Muscel district. Due to its geographical characteristics, it was more difficult for the Communist authorities to collectivise, so that, although several associations had been inaugurated over the years, until the offi cial end of the collectivisation process, few collective farms were created in the Muscel district. But the difficulty of collectivisation was largely due to the anti Communist armed resistance movement in Muscel, the Arsenescu Arnăuțoiu Group: Muscel’s Outlaw Network (1949–1959).

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