The present work attempts to answer three questions regarding Italian-Hungarian economic relations during the Cold War era. This paper also pays attention to the way their cooperation on this reform policy-oriented research was realized and the key role it played in the Hungarian agricultural cooperatives' emancipation from the bonds of the kolkhoz model in the 1960s. Two key figures, Ferenc Erdei and Lajos Fehér, shared the responsibility for the better performance of agriculture. At the same time, the shape and nature of Kádár era agrarian economic research were also affected by the alliance between the practitioners of the field and the emerging network of agro-politicians and administrators, the Agrarian Lobby. The post-1956 political leadership could only meet the challenge of redefining the relationship of the state and the agricultural cooperatives with the contribution of professionals. Institutionalization, however, could only come about after the partial rehabilitation of market economy. With the emergence of the so-called Agrarian Lobby, of the intertwining networks of politicians, administrators, and scientists of the agrarian sector, the personal and intellectual preconditions had already been in place before 1956. This article aims to outline how the political change affected agrarian economics and also highlights the significant role played by some scholars, with their latent presence and their policy suggestions, which the Kádár Government had the courage to support in November 1956. The most important reform was the abolition of the system of compulsory delivery. Following the revolution in 1956, Hungary's agrarian policy went through changes and reforms unprecedented within the socialist block.

Magyar kóla by András Dezső