Collectivization and China's Agricultural Crisis in 1959-1961
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The Institutional Causes of China’s Great Famine, 1959-1961∗
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Political Economy
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0022-3808,1537-534X
DOI: 10.1086/261732