Land Reform in China and North Vietnam: Consolidating the Revolution at the Village Level

by Edwin E. Moïse

Book Overview

This first book to consider land reform in both countries show that reform, as the Communists have conducted it, can be justified in China and North Vietnam for both economic reasons and ideological imperatives. Moise argues that the violence associated with land reform was as much a function of the social inequities that preceded reform as it was of the reform policy itself and explains the difficulties the Communist leaders encountered in developing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807815470
• ISBN13: 9780807815472
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"