ABSTRACT

This volume investigates why peasants defend themselves against the predations of politics by using such "everyday" forms of protest as footdragging, feigned ignorance, false compliance, etc. With a cross-section of countries, historical time periods, and ideologies, the case studies illustrate the variety of forms of everyday peasant resistance and their consequences.

chapter 1|22 pages

Introduction

part 25I|2 pages

The Higher-level Agricultural Producer Cooperative

chapter 2|21 pages

The Producer Cooperative in Rural Society

chapter 3|8 pages

A Reexamination of the Basic System

part 57II|2 pages

North Vietnamese Agrarian Policy, 1974–1979

part 181IV|2 pages

The Agrarian Question in North Vietnam