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, ...

This book is the fruit of a ten-year project undertaken by two premier social anthropologists working with an international, interdisciplinary team of 19 scholars. It is a monumental effort to ...

Strong words of criticism against Peter Smidovitch, vice-president of the Soviet Union, for his order exempting Jewish colonists from participating in Collectivization Day which was celebrated on ...

The official sanction by Peter Smidovitch of October 14 as “collectivization day” has placed the Jewish colonists in a difficult position because the Day of Atonement falls on that day. The ...