Left Perspectives on State Socialism IV: Land, Soil, Communes, and the Rural

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This panel explores human-soil relations through the study of land reforms, land communization, campaigns for land cooperation and collectivization, and migrations to the rural in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It presents research on alternative and egalitarian movements among peasants, women, and other communities including anarchism, Tolstoyism, vegetarian movements, women’s organizations, and village-bound migrations to better understand questions of land use and land ownership beyond common Western perspectives of private property and individualism.

Sub Unit

• Anthropology, Cultural Studies

Chair

• Sarah Craycraft, Harvard U

Papers

• Vegetarian Land Communes and the Tolstoyan Communities in Bulgaria in the Early Twentieth Century - Zhivka Valiavicharska, Pratt Institute

• Primitive Soviet Accumulation and the Zhenotdel Collectivization Campaign: A Social Reproduction Analysis - Olena Lyubchenko, York U (Canada)

Discussant

• Mieka Erley, Colgate U