Communist Agriculture : Farming in the Far East and Cuba

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. Communist Agriculture Contents Tables Preface Agrarian policies in China, Vietnam, Mongolia and Cuba The ‘Chinese model’ 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 agriculture—changing property rights in a mature collectivized agriculture