1. Introduction -- 2. Vietnamese Communist Party leaders' reasons and objectives for post-1975 agrarian reform -- 3. Postwar restoration and preparations for collectivisation -- 4. Establishing collective organisations, 1978-81 -- 5. Local politics and the performance of collective farming under the work-points system, 1978-81 -- 6. Adopting the product contract system and the continuation of land reform and collectivisation, 1981-88 -- 7. Local politics and the withering of collective farming, 1981-88
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. Focusing on two case studies--Quảng Nam province in the Central Coast region and An Giang province in the Mekong Delta--and based on extensive evidence, this study argues that the reasons for variations in implementation and the failure and reversal of the policy were twofold: regional differences and local politics."
