Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union

During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. The author analyzes the historical and political roots of these famines, in which overambitious industrial programmes endorsed by Stalin and Mao Zedong created greater disasters than those suffered under prerevolutionary regimes.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Felix Wemheuer is assistant professor at the Institute for East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna. He has published three books on twentieth-century Chinese political history and numerous journal articles.

Zusammenfassung

An authoritative study of food politics in the socialist regimes of China and the Soviet Union

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Felix Wemheuer, Wemheuer Felix
• Verlag: Yale University Press Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 26.08.2014
• EAN: 9780300195811
• ISBN: 978-0-300-19581-1
• Seiten: 344
• Serien: Yale Agrarian Studies Series; Yale Agrarian Studies; Yale Agrarian Studies Series; Yale Agrarian Studies (YUP)
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; China, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / China, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Asian History, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Famine, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made), HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era