ABSTRACT
The agrarian policy of the new regimes has generally followed that of the Soviet Union. The parts of pre-war Poland where large estates had been most dominant were annexed by the Soviet Union in 1939 and again in 1944. The new policy was based on the tactics officially adopted in the Soviet Union twenty years earlier—rely on the support of the poor peasants, win over the bulk of the medium peasants, isolate and destroy the kulaks. The attitude of East European communists to the churches, like that of the Soviet government, is largely determined by their international connections. In using police terror to force one religious community into subordination to another, the Rumanian communists were following the example of the Soviet communists. The colleges were brought under closer control by the communists, and the social composition of the pupils received was changed to the advantage of workers.
