Private land ownership and the one-family farm were the basis of Chinese agriculture for more than two thousand years before the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Until the early 1950s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)...

Collectivization refers to the wholesale and drastic reorganization of the agricultural sector of Soviet society carried out principally by Stalin shortly after the death of Lenin, at the Communist Party conference of 1923, though much of it was not...

The reorganization of a country’s agriculture into state farms thereby depriving peasants of landownership and management. Collectivization in the USSR was introduced in 1929 but was not implemented in a major and systematic way until the 1930s:...

Collective farming regards a system of agricultural organization in which farm laborers are not compensated via wages. Rather, the workers receive a share of the farm's net productivity. The political process of institutionalizing this aforementioned...

It was supposed to be a ballet fit for a party boss: Winsome maids from the local collective farm prance around the stage carrying 5-foot long potatoes, while happy Soviet farmers celebrate yet another bountiful harvest.But communist dictator Josef Stalin gave Dmitri Shostakovich's ballet "The...

Jerry Seinfeld's trip to the Holy Land got so much hype it rivaled news of key upcoming Mideast talks.The Jewish comic visited Israel for the first time in decades to promote his new animated movie about bees, and he was treated like royalty — literally.Few...

The Agriculture Department sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period, congressional investigators say.The findings by the Government Accountability Office were released Monday as the House prepared to debate and pass farm legislation this week that would...

In what sense did the policies of collectivization and industrialization constitute a 'second revolution' in the Soviet Union?