This volume concentrates on the interrelations between changing property regimes and so called -agrarianist- development strategies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The expropriation of the former feudal classes starting in 1918 was combined with a massive nationalist mobilization of the rural masses, thus threatening the property of ethnic minorities, and causing the rise of fascism and national chauvinism.

In connection with missing improvements in rural production and the break-up of traditional social bonds, the peasants' standard of living deteriorated and they often turned...