The agricultural policy of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia in the 60s of the 20th century was influenced by the transition from socialism over the political release to economic normalization. The aim of this diploma thesis is to analyze the agricultural policy of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia during this period and assess the impact of the established goals for the results of agricultural production. The thesis is also focused on the analysis of crop and animal production based on parameters which are statistically monitored and reported. In conclusion, there is a summary of the results, which were achieved in agriculture during the 60s of the 20th century and also evaluated successes and failures. Thesis will be based on resources that are processed in the National archive in Prague and contemporary literature.

The thesis explores the formation and development of agricultural production co-operativesin the context of market socialist transition. It examines how changes in the organisation ofproduction and reproduction affected gender relations. At the same time, it explores the waysin which the prevailing relationships between men and women provided incentives andcreated patterns for economic development. State socialist emancipatory rhetoric aimed atdeveloping a 'humanised' society. Humanisation was to come about through participation insocialist wage labour, while the functions of the family household were to shrink and giveway to the all-pervasive expansion of the state. These two principles were common in thestate socialist projects of agricultural collectivisation and of women's emancipation. However, the proletarianisation of the peasantry could not be accomplished due to the stubbornresistance of the peasantry. They kept alive the institution of household-based production.,Meanwhile, the state placed dual demands on women's creative forces: they were to reachparity with men in the labour force while, at the same time, they were also to nurture thecoming generations. The economy's demands for more workers mobilised the female labourreserves, but women's integration presupposed a reduction of women's reproductive responsibilities. However, rather than balancing out the burdens between men and women, reproductive rights were constructed as women's rights. Consequently, women were integrated as a 'deviant' labour force. The evolving gender segregation of labour in the collective and household sphere was explained by the changing constructions of 'masculinities' and 'femininities'. The evolving economic differentiation served as the basis for the materialisation of gender relations yet could not by itself determine the gender specific outcome of the changes in economic cycles.

This thesis focuses on the plans of the Regional National Committee in České Budějovice regarding planning for agriculture in the South Bohemian Region between the years 1949 and 1958. It was the collection named Krajský národní výbor České Budějovice 1949 - 1958, stored in the State Regional Archive in Třeboň, which set the title and time frame for the presented thesis. The circumstances that led to violent collectivization and to establishing of collective farms after the communist takeover in 1949 are no less important. This is why the thesis covers also some events of the Second World War and after it. Violent collectivization fundamentally affected the existing way of farming, caused enormous material damage, destroyed the relationship between farmers and soil that had been built for centuries, eliminated peasantry and fatally affected many human lives. The thesis is based not only on archival materials but also on academic literature concerning farming and political situation. The aim of the thesis is to outline the contemporary idea of planning for agriculture in this agricultural region held by regional representation, the vision for regional development and also to attempt to confront it with contemporary reality. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The most important one is the last one which contains the plans and results of agriculture in South Bohemia during the examined period.