Agrarian Question in Socialist Transitions

First published in 1986. This collection of eight essays begins with a piece that constructs a preliminary argument concerning the position of the peasantry in the twin transitions: the first to industrialisation, and the second, towards socialism. In the poor developing country launching upon both simultaneously, the agrarian question bifurcates into two dichotomous sets of issues. 'Primitive Accumulation', Agrarian Reform and Socialist Transitions: An Argument; The Agrarian Barrier to Industrial Growth; Primary Accumulation in the Soviet Transition; The Structure and Contradictions of Productive Relations in Socialist Agrarian 'Reform': A Framework for Analysis and the Chinese Case; Transforming Feudal Agriculture: Agrarian Change in Ethiopia since 1974; The Distributional Dimensions of Revolutionary Transition: Ethiopia; Money, Planning and Rural Transformation in Mozambique; Agrarian Reform as a Model of Accumulation: The Case of Nicaragua since 1979