Contemporary Slovak Society and Agrarian Reform

The paper is concerned with the problems of agrarian reform in Slovakia in a historical context.It looks at the development of cooperatives, state farms and private agriculture.In 1990, research was done on views of privatization in agriculture.Later development confirmed that interest in private enterprise was less than expected.In the framework of the international research project "Rural Employment and Rural Regeneration in Post Socialist Central Europe", the impact of transformation on the countryside and agriculture was studied.The research was done in cooperation with Liverpool University, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.It was supported by funds from the European Union.The transformation process in the countryside was accompanied by negative phenomena: increased unemployment and growing criminality.Positive developments can be seen in the area of small and middle sized businesses

Agrarian reform · Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Economic system · Economics · Environmental ethics · Linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Slovak · Sociology · History · Philosophy · Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition