2024
Climate Change, Pressures, and Adaptation Capacities of Farmers: Empirical Evidence from Hungary (Journal article)
Lennert, J., Kovács, K., Koós, B., Swain, N., Bálint, C., Hamza, E., . . . Kovács, A. D. (n.d.). Climate Change, Pressures, and Adaptation Capacities of Farmers: Empirical Evidence from Hungary. Horticulturae, 10(1), 56. doi:10.3390/horticulturae10010056DOI: 10.3390/horticulturae10010056
2023
Post-socialist generation change in Hungarian farming (Journal article)
Swain, N., & Hamza, E. (2023). Post-socialist generation change in Hungarian farming. Journal of Rural Studies, 103, 103128. doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103128DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103128
Global Easts. Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing (Journal article)
Swain, N. (2023). Global Easts. Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing. Europe-Asia Studies, 75(4), 700-701. doi:10.1080/09668136.2023.2191528DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2023.2191528
2022
Introduction to Expectations, opportunities, realities: women in socialist and post-socialist rural transformations (Journal article)
Swain, N., & Varga, Z. (2022). Introduction. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 30(3), 307-315. doi:10.1080/25739638.2022.2133439DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2022.2133439
Patriarchy and paternalism on a Hungarian collective farm (Journal article)
Swain, N. (2022). Patriarchy and paternalism on a Hungarian collective farm. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 30(3), 335-351. doi:10.1080/25739638.2022.2133441DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2022.2133441
2021
Something to be nostalgic about? Goulash socialist and postsocialist rural society in Hungary (Chapter)
Swain, N. (2021). Something to be nostalgic about? Goulash socialist and postsocialist rural society in Hungary. In D. Kaneff, & K. Endres (Eds.), Exploration in Economic Anthropology: Key Issues and Critical Reflections (pp. 64-75). New York and Oxford: Berghahn.
2020
Explaining Illiberal Democracy - Gábor Scheiring, The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary (Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 367 p.); Juraj Buzalka, The Cultural Economy of Protest in Post-Socialist European Union: Village Fascists and their Rivals (Abingdon/New York, Routledge, 2021, electronic version) (Journal article)
Swain, N. (2020). Explaining Illiberal Democracy - Gábor Scheiring, The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary (Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 367 p.); Juraj Buzalka, The Cultural Economy of Protest in Post-Socialist European Union: Village Fascists and their Rivals (Abingdon/New York, Routledge, 2021, electronic version). European Journal of Sociology, 61(3), 529-536. doi:10.1017/s0003975620000399DOI: 10.1017/s0003975620000399
2019
Family Farm Succession of the First Post-Socialist Generation in the Czech Republic (Journal article)
Zagata, L., Lošťák, M., & Swain, N. (2019). Family Farm Succession of the First Post-Socialist Generation in the Czech Republic. Eastern European Countryside, 25(1), 9-35. doi:10.12775/eec.2019.001DOI: 10.12775/eec.2019.001
2018
Sándor Horváth. Stalinism Reloaded: Everyday Life in Stalin-City, Hungary. (Journal article)
Swain, N. (2018). Sándor Horváth. Stalinism Reloaded: Everyday Life in Stalin-City, Hungary.. The American Historical Review, 123(4), 1422-1423. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhy163DOI: 10.1093/ahr/rhy163
Eastern Europe since 1945 (Book)
Swain, N., & Swain, G. (2018). Eastern Europe since 1945 (5th edition ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan Education.
2017
Urban and Industrial Everyday Life under Socialism and Post-Socialism (Journal article)
SWAIN, N. (2017). Urban and Industrial Everyday Life under Socialism and Post-Socialism. Contemporary European History, 26(3), 561-572. doi:10.1017/s096077731700025xDOI: 10.1017/S096077731700025X
Coming to Terms with the Past in Eastern Europe and Lessions for a Future United Korea with Special Reference to Hungary (Journal article)
Swain, N. J. (2017). Coming to Terms with the Past in Eastern Europe and Lessions for a Future United Korea with Special Reference to Hungary. Journal of Contemporary Korean Studies.
2016
Workfare Schemes as a Tool For Preventing the Further Impoverishment of the Rural Poor (Journal article)
Keller, J., Kovács, K., Rácz, K., Swain, N., & Váradi, M. (2016). Workfare Schemes as a Tool For Preventing the Further Impoverishment of the Rural Poor. Eastern European Countryside, 22(1), 5-26. doi:10.1515/eec-2016-0001DOI: 10.1515/eec-2016-0001
Swain, N. (2016). Eastern European Rurality in a Neo‐Liberal, European Union World. Sociologia Ruralis, 56(4), 574-596. doi:10.1111/soru.12131DOI: 10.1111/soru.12131
2015
Party Politics, Political Competition and Coming to Terms with the Past in Post-Communist Hungary (Journal article)
Kim, D. S., & Swain, N. (2015). Party Politics, Political Competition and Coming to Terms with the Past in Post-Communist Hungary. Europe-Asia Studies, 67(9), 1445-1468. doi:10.1080/09668136.2015.1087969DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2015.1087969
Alienating Labour: Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary (Journal article)
Swain, N. (2015). Alienating Labour: Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary. Social History, 40(1), 132-133. doi:10.1080/03071022.2014.984413DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2014.984413
2014
Socialist Escapes: Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945–1989 (Journal article)
Swain, N. (2014). Socialist Escapes: Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945–1989. Social History, 39(4), 602-603. doi:10.1080/03071022.2014.952565DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2014.952565
Anu Mai Kõll. The Village and the Class War: Anti-Kulak Campaign in Estonia. (Journal article)
Swain, N. (2014). Anu Mai Kõll. The Village and the Class War: Anti-Kulak Campaign in Estonia.. The American Historical Review, 119(2), 637. doi:10.1093/ahr/119.2.637DOI: 10.1093/ahr/119.2.637
2013
Green Barons, Force-of-Circumstance Entrepreneurs, Impotent Mayors: Rural Change in the Early Years of Post-Socialist Capitalist Democracy (Book)
Swain, N. (2013). Green Barons, Force-of-Circumstance Entrepreneurs, Impotent Mayors: Rural Change in the Early Years of Post-Socialist Capitalist Democracy. Budapest: Central European University Press.
Agriculture ‘East of the <scp>E</scp>lbe’ and the Common Agricultural Policy (Journal article)
Swain, N. (2013). Agriculture ‘East of the <scp>E</scp>lbe’ and the Common Agricultural Policy. Sociologia Ruralis, 53(3), 369-389. doi:10.1111/soru.12016DOI: 10.1111/soru.12016
Co-operative elites in Hungary after 1945 (Chapter)
Swain, N. (2013). Co-operative elites in Hungary after 1945. In T. Lorenz (Ed.), Co-operative elites in Europe (pp. 188-207). Prague: Charles University.
2011
Mária PALASIK, <i>Chess Game for Democracy: Hungary Between East and West, 1944–47</i> (Journal article)
Swain, N. (2011). Mária PALASIK, <i>Chess Game for Democracy: Hungary Between East and West, 1944–47</i>. Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 19(3), 681-685. doi:10.1080/0965156x.2012.703428DOI: 10.1080/0965156x.2012.703428
A Post-Socialist Capitalism (Journal article)
Swain, N. (2011). A Post-Socialist Capitalism. Europe-Asia Studies, 63(9), 1671-1695. doi:10.1080/09668136.2011.611653DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2011.611653
2010
The Fate of Peasant Parties during Socialist Transformation (Chapter)
Swain, N. (2010). The Fate of Peasant Parties during Socialist Transformation. In H. Schultz, A. Harre, W. Benecke, C. Boyer, U. Muller, A. Nutzenadel, & P. Ther (Eds.), Bauerngesellschaften auf dem Weg in die Moderne (Vol. 19, pp. 163-176). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
2009
Eastern Europe since 1945 (Book)
Swain, G., & Swain, N. (2009). Eastern Europe since 1945. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
Reform of land property rights in Eastern European transitional countries: problems and prospects (in Chinese) (Chapter)
Swain, N. (2009). Reform of land property rights in Eastern European transitional countries: problems and prospects (in Chinese). In D. Guoying (Ed.), Reform of Rural Land System: an International Comparison (pp. 1-17). Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press.
2008
Collective farms which work? (Book)
Swain, N. (2008). Collective farms which work?. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
The Fog of Hungary's Negotiated Revolution (Chapter)
Swain, N. (2008). The Fog of Hungary's Negotiated Revolution. In T. Cox (Ed.), Challenging Communism in Eastern Europe: 1956 and its Legacy (pp. 159-187). Abingdon: Routledge.
2007
Decollectivization politics and rural change in Bulgaria, Poland and the former Czechoslovakia (Journal article)
Swain, N. (2007). Decollectivization politics and rural change in Bulgaria, Poland and the former Czechoslovakia. Social History, 32(1), 1-26. doi:10.1080/03071020601081231DOI: 10.1080/03071020601081231
2006
The fog of Hungary's negotiated revolution (Journal article)
Swain, N. (2006). The fog of Hungary's negotiated revolution. Europe-Asia Studies, 58(8), 1347-1375. doi:10.1080/09668130600996598DOI: 10.1080/09668130600996598
Changing dynamics in the East European meso-area: a rural, grass-roots perspective (Chapter)
Swain, N. J. (2006). Changing dynamics in the East European meso-area: a rural, grass-roots perspective. In O. Ieda, T. Uyama, & O. Ieda (Eds.), REconstruction and interaction of Slavic Eurasia and its neighboring worlds (Vol. 10, pp. 43-60). Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University. Retrieved from http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/
Negotiated revolution in Poland and Hungary, 1989 (Chapter)
Swain, N. J. (2006). Negotiated revolution in Poland and Hungary, 1989. In K. McDermott, & M. Stibbe (Eds.), Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe: Challenges to Communist Rule (pp. 139-155). Oxford and New York: Berg.
The innocence of article eighteen, paragraph two, subsection e (Chapter)
Swain, N. (2006). The innocence of article eighteen, paragraph two, subsection e. In O. Ieda (Ed.), Beyond Sovereignty: from Status Law to Transnational Citizenship? (pp. 225-241). Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University.
2005
Inexperienced and impotent: rural local government in an Eastern European meso-area in statu nascendi (Journal article)
Swain, N. (2005). Inexperienced and impotent: rural local government in an Eastern European meso-area in statu nascendi. Acta Slavica Iaponica, 22, 1-24.
Legacies of Socialism in the Age of Globalization - an Anthropological Perspective (Chapter)
Swain, N. (2005). Legacies of Socialism in the Age of Globalization - an Anthropological Perspective. In S. Minamisuka (Ed.), Legacies of Socialism: the Transformation of East-Central Europe (pp. 71-93). Tokyo: Sairyusha.
2004
Saddling a Cow: the Accession States and the European Model of Agriculture (Chapter)
Swain, N. (2004). Saddling a Cow: the Accession States and the European Model of Agriculture. In S. Tabata, & A. Iwashita (Eds.), Slavic Eurasia's Integration into the World Economy and Community (pp. 199-228). Hokkaido: Slavic Research Center Hokkaido University.
2003
Social Capital and its Uses (Journal article)
SWAIN, N. (2003). Social Capital and its Uses. European Journal of Sociology, 44(2), 185-212. doi:10.1017/s0003975603001243DOI: 10.1017/s0003975603001243
Eastern Europe since 1945 (3rd edition) (Book)
Swain, G., & Swain, N. (2003). Eastern Europe since 1945 (3rd edition). London: Macmillan Palgrave.
2002
Socialist autarky and failed socialist internationalism: Comecon and "perverse successes" of the Hungarian computer industry (Chapter)
Swain, N. (2002). Socialist autarky and failed socialist internationalism: Comecon and "perverse successes" of the Hungarian computer industry. In U. Müller, H. Schultz, & H. Schultz (Eds.), National Borders and the Economic Disintegration in Modern East Central Europe (pp. 209-221). Berlin: Arno Spitz.
Traditionen der häuslichen Kleinlandwirtschaft in Osteuropa (Chapter)
Swain, N. (2002). Traditionen der häuslichen Kleinlandwirtschaft in Osteuropa. In E. Meyer-Renschhausen (Ed.), Die Gärten der Frauen: Zur Sozialen Bedeutung von Kleinwirtschaft in Stadt un Land Weltweit (pp. 111-133). Herbolzheim: Centaurus Verlag.
2001
Agricultural restructuring in Transylvania in the post-communist period (Chapter)
Swain, N., & Vincze, M. (2001). Agricultural restructuring in Transylvania in the post-communist period. In D. Light, & D. Phinnemore (Eds.), Post-Communist Romania: Coming to Terms with Transition (pp. 175-190). London: Palgrave.
2000
From Kolkhoz to Holding Company: a Hungarian Agricultural Producer Co‐operative in Transition (Journal article)
Swain, N. (2000). From Kolkhoz to Holding Company: a Hungarian Agricultural Producer Co‐operative in Transition. Journal of Historical Sociology, 13(2), 142-171. doi:10.1111/1467-6443.00111DOI: 10.1111/1467-6443.00111
1999
Agricultural Restitution and Co-operative Transformation in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia (Journal article)
Swain, N. (1999). Agricultural Restitution and Co-operative Transformation in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. Europe-Asia Studies, 51(7), 1199-1219. doi:10.1080/09668139998507DOI: 10.1080/09668139998507
1998
Eastern Europe since 1945 (2nd edition) (Book)
Swain, G., & Swain, N. (1998). Eastern Europe since 1945 (2nd edition). London: Macmillan Palgrave.
The Visegrad countries of Eastern Europe (Chapter)
Swain, N. (1998). The Visegrad countries of Eastern Europe. In B. Foley (Ed.), European Economies since the Second World War (pp. 177-208). London: Macmillan.
1996
Getting land in Central Europe (Chapter)
Swain, N. (1996). Getting land in Central Europe. In R. Abrahams (Ed.), After Socialism: Land Reform and Rural Social Change in Eastern Europe (pp. 193-215). Oxford: Berhahn.
1993
Eastern Europe since 1945 (1st edition) (Book)
Swain, G., & Swain, N. (1993). Eastern Europe since 1945 (1st edition). London: Macmillan Palgrave.
Hungary (Chapter)
Swain, N. (1993). Hungary. In S. White, J. Batt, & P. G. Lewis (Eds.), Developments in East European Politics (pp. 66-82). London: Macmillan.
1992
Global technologies and political change in Eastern Europe (Chapter)
Swain, N. (1992). Global technologies and political change in Eastern Europe. In A. McGrew, & P. G. Lewis (Eds.), Global Politics: Globalization and the Nation-State (pp. 138-154). Cambridge: Polity.
Hungary: The Rise and Fall of Feasible Socialism (Book)
Swain, N. (1992). Hungary: The Rise and Fall of Feasible Socialism. London: Verso.
1990
Small Co-operatives and Economic Work Partnerships in the computing industries: exceptions that prove the rule (Journal article)
Swain, N. (1990). Small Co-operatives and Economic Work Partnerships in the computing industries: exceptions that prove the rule. Journal of Communist Studies, 6(2), 85-109.
1989
Hungary's socialist project in crisis (Journal article)
Swain, N. (1989). Hungary's socialist project in crisis. New Left Review, (176), 3-29.
1988
Collective farms which work (Chapter)
Swain, N. (1988). Collective farms which work. In T. Shanin (Ed.), Peasants and Peasant Societies, (second edition) (pp. 111-113). London: Penguin.
1987
Hungarian agriculture in the early 1980s: Retrenchment followed by reform (Journal article)
Swain, N. (1987). Hungarian agriculture in the early 1980s: Retrenchment followed by reform. Soviet Studies, 39(1), 24-39. doi:10.1080/09668138708411672DOI: 10.1080/09668138708411672
1985
Collective Farms which Work? (Book)
Swain, N. (1985). Collective Farms which Work?. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1981
Hungary: a Decade of Economic Reform (Book)
Hare, P. G., Radice, H. K., & Swain, N. (Eds.) (1981). Hungary: a Decade of Economic Reform. London: George Allen and Unwin.
The evolution of Hungary's agricultural system since 1967 (Chapter)
Swain, N. (1981). The evolution of Hungary's agricultural system since 1967. In P. G. Hare, H. K. Radice, & N. Swain (Eds.), Hungary: a Decade of Economic Reform (pp. 225-251). London: George Allen and Unwin.