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General histories of the twentieth century will have much to say about the establishment, spread, maintenance and sudden collapse of Soviet Communism. This book outlines a major feature of twentieth-century world history that arguably affected more people than the rise and fall of Soviet Communism. It is the first to discuss as related developments the many attempts in Asia and Africa in the third quarter of the twentieth century to create egalitarian rural societies (landlord abolition in Egypt, India and Iran; ujamaa in Tanzania; land reform in Indonesia; collectivisation in China, Vietnam…mehr

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General histories of the twentieth century will have much to say about the establishment, spread, maintenance and sudden collapse of Soviet Communism. This book outlines a major feature of twentieth-century world history that arguably affected more people than the rise and fall of Soviet Communism. It is the first to discuss as related developments the many attempts in Asia and Africa in the third quarter of the twentieth century to create egalitarian rural societies (landlord abolition in Egypt, India and Iran; ujamaa in Tanzania; land reform in Indonesia; collectivisation in China, Vietnam and Ethiopia), their failure, and the differentiated rural regimes which, despite landlord abolition, remain there to this day. The case studies include Egypt, India, the three East African countries, Papua New Guinea, Iran, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Ethiopia, China, and Vietnam. The book highlights a major and, hitherto, disaggregated aspect of twentieth-century world history.

Table of contents:
1. Landlord abolition and the rural order: Egypt, India; 2. Richer peasants and the state: East Africa, Papua New Guinea; 3. Rightist regimes and peasant societies: Iran and southeast Asia; 4. Leftist regimes and their peasantries: Ethiopia, China, Vietnam.

This book analyses the many attempts in Asia and Africa in the third quarter of the twentieth century to create egalitarian rural societies, their failure, and the differentiated rural regimes which, despite landlord abolition, remain there to this day.

An account of the recent unsuccessful attempts in Asia and Africa to create egalitarian rural societies.