Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780300195811
Subjects: Famines; China, economic policy; Soviet union, economic policy
Description: During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political roots of these socialist era famines, in which overambitious industrial programmes endorsed by Stalin and Mao Zedong created greater disasters than those suffered under pre-revolutionary regimes.