Economic Reform Custom Essay

Questions:

Why was land reform a cornerstone of the economic policies of the post-Imperial states?
To what extent was economic reform motivated by political concerns rather than a desire to improve the economic situation?
Why did land reform fail to achieve its objectives?
Why did the Great Depression in Western Europe impact upon the agricultural states of Eastern Europe?

Key Readings:

David Mitrany The land & the peasant in Rumania; the war and agrarian reform, 1917-21 chapter 10

Julian Jackson Europe 1900-1945: Short Oxford History of Europe (The Short Oxford History of Europe) (OUP)

Giovanni Capoccia Defending Democracy: Reactions to Extremism in Interwar Europe (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Joseph Rothschild, East-Central Europe between the wars, (University of Washington Press)

Hugh Seton-Watson Eastern Europe between the wars 1918-1941(Joanna Cotler)

Aldcroft, D.H., The Twenties. From Versailles to Wall Street, 1919–1929 (1987).

Eichengreen, B., Golden Fetters. The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919–1939 (1992).

Silverman, D.P., Reconstructing Europe after the Great War (1982).

Brunner, K. (ed.), The Great Depression Revisited (1981).

Haberler, G., The World Economy, Money and the Great Depression, 1919–1939