A fascinating comparative study of how the agricultural experience of the Soviet Bloc has shaped and sometimes hindered development in the rest of the communist world, this book examines the agrarian policies of China, Mongolia, Vietnam, and Cuba, and provides an account of agricultural development
Communist Agriculture: Farming in the Far East and Cuba
β Scribed by Karl-Eugen WΓ€dekin
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 142
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
A fascinating comparative study of how the agricultural experience of the Soviet Bloc has shaped and sometimes hindered development in the rest of the communist world, this book examines the agrarian policies of China, Mongolia, Vietnam, and Cuba, and provides an account of agricultural development in socialist economies which focuses on both the historical and contemporary aspects of this development.
β¦ Table of Contents
Communist Agriculture
Contents
Tables
Preface
Agrarian policies in China, Vietnam, Mongolia and Cuba
The βChinese modelβ and the future of rural-urban development
Socialist agriculture outside Europe: new ways in Mongolian agriculture?
Cuba: a unique variant of Soviet-type agriculture
Vietnamese agricultureβchanging property rights in a mature collectivized agriculture
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