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 ...

This video examines how communist collectivization turned agriculture into a system of state control. It traces the policy failures in the Soviet Union and China, where grain was seized, production ...

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 ...

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The year 1933 went down in history as the year of scarcity around the world and the year of Adolf Hitler. On the streets of American and European cities, many people lost their jobs as a result of the ...

A clash between the Jewish peasants termed Kulaks and the Communist Jewish colonists in the Sholom Aleichem colony is reported here. The clash occurred at a meeting when the Communists insisted that ...