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- Title
How China Won and Russia Lost.
- Authors
GREGORY, PAUL; ZHOU, KATE
- Abstract
The article presents an account of late-20th-century agricultural reforms related to collective farms in China and the Soviet Union. It emphasizes how the Chinese reforms originated at the grassroots level, while the Soviet reforms were directed by the central government. Chinese farmers in the late 1970s, at considerable personal risk, began surreptitiously dividing land between families. The resulting improvements in agricultural production were sufficiently obvious that the country's communist rulers were compelled to embrace the change. In the Soviet Union, however, the communist government's attempts to command similar reforms were unsuccessful.
- Subjects
SOVIET Union; CHINA; LAND reform; GRASSROOTS movements; COLLECTIVE farms; HISTORY of agricultural policy; AGRICULTURAL policy
- Publication
Policy Review, 2009, Issue 158, p35
- ISSN
0146-5945
- Publication type
Article