This book outlines a major feature of twentieth-century world history that arguably affected more people than the rise and fall of Soviet Communism. It is the first to discuss as related developments the many attempts in Asia and Africa in the third quarter of the twentieth century to create egalitarian rural societies , their failure, and the differentiated rural regimes that despite landlord abolition remain there to this day.
Language
English
Pages
148
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Release
November 24, 1995
ISBN
0521496659
ISBN 13
9780521496650
The Egalitarian Moment: Asia and Africa, 1950-1980
This book outlines a major feature of twentieth-century world history that arguably affected more people than the rise and fall of Soviet Communism. It is the first to discuss as related developments the many attempts in Asia and Africa in the third quarter of the twentieth century to create egalitarian rural societies , their failure, and the differentiated rural regimes that despite landlord abolition remain there to this day.