Agrarian Policies in Communist and Post-Communist Romania: Interferences, Discontinuities and Consequences on the Social Development Level.

This research focuses to fulfill the following desiderata: describing the process of Romanian agriculture's collectivization after the model of the Stalinist "kolhoz" and its consequences on social, political and moral level; identifying the difficulties faced by the Romanian agriculture after the fall of communism and after the accession to European Union; defining the main objectives and challenges of the agricultural policy in present Romania, confronted with the global economic crisis. Last but not least, the intention of this paper was to stimulate debate on a subject closely related to social development of Romania in the years after the fall of communism and the role played by the communist mentalities and heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]