Changes in the Czechoslovak agriculture in the course of 1945 to 1948

The theme of the present paper is the post-war development of the Czechoslovak agriculture and the task of agriculture in the power-political intentions of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia within the three years of postwar development 1945 to 1948. The first part of the paper is concerned with the research of the origine and the forming of the new Government, the decreets of the president of the republic, the ownership changes, the soil reform and the immediate changes in agriculture taking place within this context. Included is also the role of the communist party and its agricultural policy. The following part of the paper relates to the political and economic development in the years 1945 to 1947, characterized by the elections in May 1946 and the ensuing controversy of political parties over agricultural policy. It researches also the development of the agricultural policy of the communist party on the basis of documents in the National Archives. The last part describes the process ending in the turn-over of the political system and is focused on the change of the agricultural policy of the communist party of Czechoslovakia and the scope of fulfillment of the hitherto aims of the communists and the opening of the collectivization process. The author has used in his paper the information derived from publications and articles, archives documents and the press media of the period