lack of financial and structural support from the state. In Czechoslovakia, the state had only a bare tolerance for household plots and the transitional system was marked by its almost total inflexibility. In contrast, transitional measures in Hungary worked with the concerns of the farmers, allowing them mechanical independence, semi-private production on their household plots and crop-shared fields, and a decent standard of living from higher agricultural producer prices and substantial government investment. See also Collectivization in the USSR Eastern Bloc economies References Swain, RFFS, 35. Swain, CFWW, 3. Swain, RFFS, 35. Swain, RFFS, 36. Swain, RFFS, 42. Berend, 2 Swain, CFWW, 27 Berend, 106. Swain, CFWW, 37. Berend, 102. Berend, 98. Swain, CFWW, 33. Swain, CFWW, 4. Bell, 137 Swain, Structures in Transition, 4. Swain, Structures in Transition, 4. Sources Nigel Swain, Collective Farms Which Work? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), Nigel Swain, Hungary: The Rise and Fall of Feasible Socialism (London: New Left Books, 1992) Nigel Swain, Central European Agricultural Structures in Transition (Discussion Paper for Frankfurt Institute for Transition Studies, 1999) Iván T. Berend, The Hungarian Economic Reforms 1953-1988 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). Peter D. Bell, Peasants in Socialist Transition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984) Agricultural labor Collective farming Hungarian People's Republic