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Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
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Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series
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An authoritative study of food politics in the socialist regimes of
China and the Soviet Union During the twentieth century, 80 percent
of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union.
In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the
historical and political roots of these socialist-era famines, in
which overambitious industrial programs endorsed by Stalin and Mao
Zedong created greater disasters than those suffered under
prerevolutionary regimes. Focusing on famine as a political tool,
Wemheuer systematically exposes how conflicts about food among
peasants, urban populations, and the socialist state resulted in
the starvation death of millions. A major contribution to Chinese
and Soviet history, this provocative analysis examines the
long-term effects of the great famines on the relationship between
the state and its citizens and argues that the lessons governments
learned from the catastrophes enabled them to overcome famine in
their later decades of rule.
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