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This 5 page paper compares Mao Zedong's view of an agrarian society to that of Joseph Stalin's. Conclusions as to why they both failed in their implementation and the results of their flawed policies. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the workers. In particular the workers who provide the necessary raw materials for the manufacture of various goods, as well as providing food and materials for clothing and building. Thus,
the agrarian policies of both Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin were of utmost importance in both of the socialist based governments. In Maos case, he had a problem. The
problem was that almost all of his countrymen were farmers, but there were few who lived in the cities and even fewer to run the factories. He needed to squeeze
the very small surplus out of the countryside and invest it somehow in the industries of the cities. To leave this to the natural occurrence of the market system
seemed ineffectual to the oriental sensibility and so the communal system of collectivized agriculture was implemented. Property was seized and placed into one large holding that many could farm. Thus
there was no property ownership by the farmers that worked the lands. This way, Mao seemed to reason, the larger tracts of land could be famed more efficiently. The workers
were not paid for their labor, nor were they subsidized by the government for the quotas that they were expected to meet. Instead, they were awarded points and the government
took as much surplus as possible for use in the industrial areas. Families were given only very small plots for their personal farming, and markets for the sale of
rural produce were limited mostly to the exchange of goods among local residents. Although this did have the intended effect of allowing
the state to amass a good deal of surplus to invest in industry, it ultimately was abandoned as it wreaked havoc on the workers. Part of the side effect of
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