Changes in the Croatian village and the periodical Sociologija sela

The periodical Sociologija sela has been coming out continously for thirty years, and we use this occasion to publish its thirty-year bibliography. This article is an introduction to the bibliography and in it two editors, a former editor and the present editor, give a short description of the changes and phases in the development of the Croatian village and private agriculture in the past three decades, as reconstructed through texts published in Sociologija sela. In that period the village went through and survived the disintegration of the agrarian society (the fifties and sixties); after that it established a new balance through the increasingly varied and closer relations with the town (seventies and eighties); and finally (end of the eighties and beginning of the nineties) a new phase is starting in the Croatian village: modern family farms have begun to develop, although they are still rare, new forms of entrepreneurship are emering and a more modern way of using rural areas. The war, witch was especially merciless towards the village and the rural population, dictates new themes: destruction, crime, flight, life in displacement, return, renewal