The policy of the state and the Communist Party in relation to the personal house farming in 1946—1991 (the case of the collective farm «Novaya Zhizn», Pravdinsky district, Kaliningrad Oblast)
Based on unpublished archival materials and employing a microhistorical approach, this article examines postwar party and state policies toward the personal house farming (PHFs) of collective farmers, using the agricultural enterprise Novaya Zhizn in Pravdinsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast as a case study. The aim is to identify the specific features of policy implementation at the level of an individual collective farm and to analyze the attitudes of the collective farmers themselves toward this...
The end of the collective farm (the case of the collective farm “Novaya Znizn”, Pravdinsky district, Kaliningrad region)
Based on unpublished materials from the State Archive of the Kaliningrad region and the Archival department of the administration of the municipal entity “Pravdinsky Urban District”, including minutes of general meetings and board sessions of the collective farm, materials from the primary party organization, etc., this microhistorical study explores the final years of the “Novaya Znizn (New Life)” collective farm in the Pravdinsky district of the Kaliningrad region. The research goal is to reconstruct...
