Also by Frank Trentmann (CONSUMING CULTURES, GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES: Historical ‘Transnational Exchanges (co-edited with John Brewer) “THE MAKING OF THE CONSUMER: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World (Editor) CIVIL SOCIETY: A Reader in History, Theory and Global Politics (co-edited with John Halt) WORLDS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY: Knowledge and Power in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (co-edited with ‘Martin J. Daunton) MARKETS IN HISTORICAL CONTENTS: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World (co-edited with Mark Bevr) PARADOXES OF CIVIL SOCIETY: New Perspectives on Modem German and Batish History (eltor) ‘CRITIQUES OF CAPITAL IN MODERN BRITAIN AND AMERICA: Transatlantic Exchanges (co-edited with Mark Bevir) Also by Flemmh CO-OPERATIVES AND FARMER'S UNIONS IN WESTERN EUROPE (etor) AGRICULTURE, THE STATE AND EXPORTS, 1930-1950 WAR AND SOCIETY IN SCANDINAVIA IN THE TWENTIBTH CENTURY (editor) pocorn ces cemenretmemaenmnisemsies, Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars Edited by Frank Trentmann and Flemming Just palgrave ‘macmnitlantral mater, selection and itroduton © Frenk Trentann and Flerming st 2006, ‘Al remaining chapters © ther espective authors 2006 Aight reserved No reproduction, copy rtransmisson ofthis publeaton may be mace without written permission "No pragrach of this pubeation may be reproduced copied or arsed Sve with ttn permission orn accordance th the pron the ont bert atns At S08 rane tea fay ence ited copying ted by he Copyright Ucerng Agen), Cour Read London WT aL. ‘Any person who does any unauthorised actin elation to this publtion PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and ry rope—Histany—Zorn century, 2. World War, S18 Food supply —turope 3. Worl Wy, 19 4S“Foee arerment policy furope— 1. Just, Flerening, 2006064293 Contents List of Mustrations List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction Frank Trentmann and Flemming Just Coping with Shortage: The Problem of Food Security and Global Visions of Coordination, ¢.1890s-1950 Frank Trentmann Consumption and Total Warfare in Paris (1914-1918) Thierry Bonzon Food Provision and Food Retalling in The Hague, 1914-1930 Thimo de Nijs Dictating Food; Autarchy, Food Provision, and Consumer Politics in Fascist Italy, 1922-1943 Alexander Nutzenadel Stalin, Soviet Agriculture, and Collectivisation Mark B. Tauger Brown Bread for Victory: German and British Wholemeal Politics in the Inter-War Period Uwe Spiekermann Danish Food Production in the German War Economy Mogens R. Nissen ‘The Mystery of the Dying Dutch: Can Micronutrient Deficiencies Explain the Difference between Danish and Dutch Wartime Mortality? Ralf Futselaar vil vill 143, 172. 193108 Food and Confit in Europe 87 rowvediment per autonomia economica dl owe el paese’, La conguista dela terra, enze (Salerno, 1977), p. 42 Reichsam fir wehrwittsl ‘Ausfertigung 3 (Geel Ron lavoro. 1 lavorator italiani emirati nel Terao Reick nel (orence, 1992). arty expected massive protest ages he toni AGS 0D, Co, Not Batt Rep ef the PN te hese 1p. 396, Economic History of Modem Italy (New York and London, 1943), See the numerous reports on food protests in ACS, SPO, CO, No. 500.003/3. S. Colariz, La seconda guera mondiale © la Repubblica, (Turin, 1984), Bp 126-388. De Fells, Mason Flea, 1840-48, vo. 1 (a, 1950), 6 Stalin, Soviet Agriculture, and Collectivisation Mark B. Tauger ‘The collectivisation of Soviet agriculture in the 1930s may have been the violence and the harsh policy of ‘dekulakis peasant protests, disrupted the agricultural the great famine of 1931-33, though ‘most important cause." {At the same time, collectivisation brought substantial modemisation to traditional agriculture in the Soviet Union, and iaid the basis for relat- ively high food production and consumption by the 1970s and 1980s. tends to the inten- authority and power he ha an understanding of the regime's decision to carry out this policy. Yet scholarly discussions of his views of agriculture and related issues (9eas- int) are problematic. Few, if any Conquestscitation of Khrushchev that dequately supported postions, the agrarian topics and shind the deciston to col agriculture. These interpret range between two poles: exploit- ation, according to which Stalin’s goal in collectivisation was to facilitate extraction of food and other resources from the villages; and 108