| Description |
xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Theorizing everyday politics in collective farming -- 3. Building on wobbly foundations, 1955-1961 -- 4. Coping and shoring up, 1961-1974 -- 5. Collapsing from within, 1974-1981 -- 6. Dismantling collective farming, expanding the family farm, 1981-1990 -- 7. Conclusion |
| Summary |
"The Power of Everyday Politics is an authoritative account, based on extensive research in Vietnam's National Archives and in the Red River Delta countryside, of the formation of collective farms in northern Vietnam in the late 1950s, their enlargement during wartime in the 1960s and 1970s, and their collapse in the 1980s. As Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet shows, the Vietnamese government eventually terminated the system, but not for ideological reasons. Rather, collectivization had become hopelessly compromised and was ultimately destroyed largely by the activities of villagers. Decollectivization began locally among villagers themselves; national policy merely followed."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-297) and index |
| Subject |
Collectivization of agriculture -- Vietnam.
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Agriculture and state -- Vietnam.
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Peasants -- Vietnam.
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| LC no. |
2004019430 |
| ISBN |
0801443016 cloth alkaline paper |
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9812303251 |
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