ABSTRACT
In Poland, the policy of forced collectivization was initiated belatedly and implemented reluctantly. A background of success in economic reconstruction and increasing political stability formed the context in which Polish authorities came to grips with the policy of forced collectivization. The agrarian structure in interwar Poland had been characterized by large estates and a considerable population of landless farm laborers. The Party's dissatisfaction with the speed of the process resulted in the creation of specially empowered land reform commissioners with mandates to carry out the distribution immediately and expel the former owners. The level of destruction made it impossible for all the land recipients to establish individual homesteads. The Class Struggle model assumes the existence of a Communist Party with an organization in the countryside sufficient to mobilize its allies in the struggle against the rural enemies of socialism.
