Vietnam’s Post-1975 Agrarian Reforms: How Local Politics Derailed Socialist Agriculture in Southern Vietnam

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by  Trung Dang

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Vietnam’s Post-1975 Agrarian Reforms: How local politics derailed socialist
agriculture in southern Vietnam
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DOI: 10.22459/VPAR.04.2018
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Vietnam’s Post-1975
AGRARIAN REFORMS
How local politics derailed socialist agriculture
in southern Vietnam

Vietnam’s Post-1975
AGRARIAN REFORMS
How local politics derailed socialist agriculture
in southern Vietnam
TRUNG DANG
VIETNAM SERIES
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Contents
Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Key Vietnamese terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Note on province names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Note on measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
1 . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 . Vietnamese Communist Party leaders’ reasons and objectives
for post-1975 agrarian reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3 . Postwar restoration and preparations for collectivisation . . . . . . . 45
4 . Establishing collective organisations, 1978–81 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
5 . Local politics and the performance of collective farming
under the work-points system, 1978–81 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
6 . Adopting the product contract system and the continuation
of land reform and collectivisation, 1981–88 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
7 . Local politics and the withering of collective farming,
1981–88 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
8 . Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Figures
Figure 5.1 Rice production unit ...............................135
Figure 5.2 Food procurement station ..........................136
Figure 5.3 A farmer and a merchant at a food procurement
station ................................................137
Figure 5.4 Drinking at work ..................................138
Figure 5.5 Tet (New Year) gifts ................................138
Figure 5.6 Smuggling ........................................139
Figure 7.1 Internal funds .....................................223
Figure 7.2 Red tape ..........................................224
Figure 7.3 Prohibiting the use of cameras .......................224
Figure 7.4 Heart problem ....................................225
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Maps
Map 1.1 Southern Vietnam, 2005 ..............................15
Map 1.2 Quảng Nam administrative map, 2005 ..................16
Map 1.3 Thăng Bình district map, 2005 .........................17
Map 1.4 An Giang administrative map, 2005 .....................18
Map 1.5 Chợ Mới district map, 2005 ............................19
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