Komparace procesů kolektivizace zemědělství v Československu a Polsku v letech 1948 – 1960

This work aims to analyze the process and consequences of collectivization in post-war Czechoslovakia and Poland in period 1948 – 1960 and compare them. The main objective of this work is to compare the process and the success rate of collectivization and its impact on both countries. In my work I tried to verify the hypothesis that collectivization caused bigger economic losses in Poland rather than in Czechoslovakia. There have been many scientific works written on the topic of collectivization in both Poland and Czechoslovakia but the comparison of the collectivization process has not been met with much interest in the scientific community. The theoretical part of this work describes the political and economic development of post-war Czechoslovakia and Poland including the state of agriculture and also political and economic motivations that led to the collectivization. The analytical part of this work describes the evolution of collectivization in both countries with emphasis on impacts of collectivization and agricultural reforms on the agricultural sector and the national economy of both countries. Verification of hypothesis was unsuccessful, because of absence of statistical data covering the key quantity of the research. Hypothesis was denied, according to available data.