Bread, Rice and Freedom: The Peasantry and Agriculture in the USSR and China (May/June, 1983)

Feb 1, 2011

This article was first published in the May/June 1983 issue of Freedom at Issue, published by Freedom House. It includes a comparative analysis of the Stalin and Mao famines.

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