Famine politics in Maoist 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wemheuer, Felix (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven and London : Yale University Press, 2014.
Series:Yale agrarian studies.
Subjects:
1949-1976
Famines > China.
Famines > Soviet Union.
Famines > Chine.
Famines > URSS.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Economic policy.
Famines.
China > Economic policy > 1949-1976.
Soviet Union > Economic policy.
Chine > Politique économique > 1949-1976.
URSS > Politique économique.
China.
Soviet Union.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The tribute of the peasantry in times of food availability decline
  • Protecting the cities, fighting for survival of the regime
  • Hierarchies of hunger and peasant-state relations (1949-1958)
  • Preventing urban famine by starving the countryside (1959-1962)
  • The burden of empire: the crisis of indigenization in Ukraine and Tibet
  • Eating mice for the liberation of Tibet: hunger in official Chinese history
  • Genocide against the nation: the counter-narratives of Tibetan and Ukrainian nationalism.

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