ABSTRACT
After the land had been redistributed, the Communist Party launched a campaign in 1953 to collectivize the land and promote cooperative farming. The official rationale for collectivization was the supposition that land and labor could be used more efficiently—and the product of labor could be distributed more equitably—if the land were not privately owned. Also, the Party looked forward to the day when farming would be mechanized, and it reasoned that the existing small, irregular plots of land would be ill-suited to that technological advance.
