Agrarian institutions and the state: Hungary and Slovakia in the post-communist era. From: East European Quarterly | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: Crumley, Michele L. | COPYRIGHT 2003 East European Quarterly. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Within two years after the end of communist regimes in Central Eastern Europe, the trade organization Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) collapsed. (1) Hungary had been the only CMEA state that could provide for the agricultural needs of its domestic consumers without imports. Before 1989, agricultural products in Hungary also composed the largest percentage of exports to the West for hard currency. (2) By contrast, Czechoslovakia exported goods predominantly to CMEA mem...