Formation of Uniform Agricultural Cooperatives and their legal regulation

1 FORMATION OF UNIFORM AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES AND THEIR LEGAL REGULATION The purpose of my thesis is to analyse the legal and political basis of the formation of uniform agricultural cooperatives, with an emphasis on years 1948 - 1950. The thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter One describes some legal and political documents connected with augricultural co-operation prior to the coup d'etat in February 1948. It is subdivided into six subchapters. Two main subchapters contentrate on two important legal drafts, published by the Ministry of Agriculture, drafts of six agricultural and the Programmme of Hradec Králové. Chapter Two is subdivided into ten subchapters. It focuses on the period from the coup d'état in 1948 to the enactment of the law on the uniform agricultural cooperatives in February 1949. The aim of this chapter is to summarize political and legal activities connected with prepatations of the law on the uniform agricultural cooperatives, following the proclamation the Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia by the Informbiro in june 1948. Remaining subchapters deal with legal changes in the agricultural sphere, implemented in this period: foundation of the Central Council of Co-operatives, forced purchase of agricultural products, state administration of..