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  3. The Egalitarian Moment
  • Cited by 3
  • D. A. Low, Australian National University, Canberra
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
October 2018
Print publication year:
1995
Online ISBN:
9780511622359
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511622359
Series:
The Wiles Lectures
Subjects:
History after 1945 (General) , Area Studies, History of Ideas, African Studies, History, African History
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Book description

General histories of the twentieth century will have much to say about the establishment, spread, maintenance and sudden collapse of Soviet Communism. 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 was 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 (landlord abolition in Egypt, India and Iran; ujamaa in Tanzania; land reform in Indonesia; collectivization in China, Vietnam and Ethiopia), their failure, and the differentiated rural regimes which, despite landlord abolition, remain there to this day. The case studies include Egypt, India, the three East African countries, Papua New Guinea, Iran, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Ethiopia, China and Vietnam. The book highlights a major and hitherto disaggregated aspect of twentieth-century world history.

Reviews

"...this pithy little book bodes fair to become a classic among Third World studies." Foreign Affairs

"The writing is generally clear and to the point....The discussions around the Wiles lectures in Belfast in 1994 obviously were lively and this is an appropriate memento of them." Peter Lyon, International History Review

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