The Decollectivisation of Agriculture

  • Michel Chossudovsky
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Abstract

Counter-revolutionary tendencies have been present from the very inception of the Land Reform Movement. The policies of decollectivisation after Mao have their counterpart in the early 1950s and in the aftermath of the Great Leap. The movement to restore private household farming, however, only became fully cohesive after the downfall of the group of Four and the initial period of purges in the communist party conducted during 1977–9. The latter were conducive to the political demise of Hua Guofeng, the return and rise to power of Deng Xiaoping and the consolidation of a corporate bureaucratic leadership firmly committed to the ‘Rightist’ line. The evolution of agricultural policy since 1977 is, therefore, intimately related to the power struggle during the years of the Cultural Revolution and in its aftermath.

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© Michel Chossudovsky 1986

Authors and Affiliations

  • Michel Chossudovsky
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  1. 1.AylmerCanada

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