Vietnam's post-1975 agrarian reforms : how local politics derailed socialist agriculture in southern Vietnam / Trung Dang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dang, Trung Dinh, author.

Series:

Vietnam (Series)

Vietnam series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collectivization of agriculture--Vietnam (Democratic Republic).

Collectivization of agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 302 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Acton, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2018]

Summary:

This book investigates why collectivised farming failed in south Vietnam after 1975. Despite the strong will of the new regime to implement collectivisation, the effort was uneven, misapplied and subverted. After only 10 years of trying, the regime annulled the policy.

Contents:

Intro

Figures

Maps

Tables

Abbreviations

Key Vietnamese terms

Note on province names

Note on measurements

Introduction

Vietnamese Communist Party leaders' reasons and objectives for post-1975 agrarian reform

Postwar restoration and preparations for collectivisation

Establishing collective organisations, 1978-81

Local politics and the performance of collective farming under the work-points system, 1978-81

Adopting the product contract system and the continuation of land reform and collectivisation, 1981-88

Local politics and the withering of collective farming, 1981-88

Conclusion

Bibliography.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781760461966

1760461962

OCLC:

1031210807

Publisher Number:

10.22459/VPAR.04.2018