Politics and the Peasantry in Post-War Turkey

Sinan Yildirmaz is Assistant Professor of History at Istanbul University and an expert on the cultural history of Modern Turkey.

Chapter
I. INTRODUCTION
II. PEASANTS IN THEORY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL
SOCIOLOGY IN TURKEY
Modernization Theory and the Peasantry
The Development of “Rural Sociology” in Turkey
III. PEASANTS MOVING TOWARDS CITIES:
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE RURAL STRUCTURE, RURAL MIGRATION AND THE GECEKONDU
The Change in Economic Policies in the Post-War Period Capitalism, Modernization and Urbanization
The Land Reform Law, the Marshall Plan, the Smallholder Peasantry and Migration
The Reasons for the Rural Migration, or Is It Possible to Create a Stereotype in the Analysis of the Rural Migration?
The Peasants in the Cities and the Invention of the “Gecekondu”
IV. PEASANTRY AS AN ACTIVE COMPONENT OF POLITICS
The Arslanköy Case and the Development of the Rule of Law
The Peasants and Politics during the DP Government
The Village Coffeehouse as a Political Space
The Peasants and Anti-Communism
V. THE MAKING OF THE “VILLAGE LITERATURE”
Defining the Village Literature
History in the Village Literature
The Making of the Village Literature Canon
From the “Reality” of the Literature to the “Reality” of the Country
VI. CONCLUSION