Zsuzsanna Varga is head of the Modern Hungarian History Department at Eötvös Loránd University.

Zsuzsanna Varga’s book, which is built on decades-long archival and oral history research, is essential reading for any scholar interested not only in the specific Hungarian variant of state socialism but also in how to write from a postrevisionist angle.

• Chapter 1: The Stalinist System of Socialist Agriculture and Its Export to East Central EuropeChapter 2: Transplanting the Soviet Model—The First Attempt for Collectivization Chapter 3: Retrenchment to Private Farming—TwiceChapter 4: The Final Drive for Collectivization Chapter 5: Convergence or Divergence? Chapter 6: American Model Transfer Chapter 7: Contextualizing the “Hungarian Agricultural Miracle”