Collectivization, or the consolidation of individual peasant farms into collective ones, was an assault on the ancient traditions of the Russian peasantry. However, on the bright side, it accelerated ...

Beginning in the late 1970s, the reform and opening-up period brought boom times to a large swath of China — especially along the coast — and the success of the country’s new market reforms has turned ...

The "Annals of Communism" series is Yale University Press's invaluable publishing enterprise that makes available previously unopened documents from the Soviet state and party archives on key topics, ...

Seven essays, originally presented at a conference at the University of Kentucky, dealing with the peasants of Eastern Europe, the strategy of collectivization and ...

Famine as means of effective dictatorship: Stalin collectivized the farms and called starvation of millions of people an act of sabotage. NEW HAVEN – Eighty years ago, in the autumn of 1930, Joseph ...

Between 1932 and 1933, Soviet policies of forced collectivization contributed to a devastating famine in Ukraine known as the Holodomor. Government grain quotas, repression, and economic control led ...

ALTHOUGH some 20 million Soviet citizens moved from the country to the city between 1929 and 1939, as part of the government’s program of rapid industrialization, Russia is still predominantly an ...