TY - BOOK AU - Wemheuer,Felix TI - Famine politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union T2 - Yale agrarian studies series SN - 978-0-300-19581-1 U1 - 363.8095109045 23E PY - 2014/// CY - New Haven, London PB - Yale University Press KW - Famines--China KW - Famines--Soviet Union KW - China--Economic policy--1949-1976 KW - Soviet Union--Economic policy N1 - Notes bibliogr; The tribute of the peasantry in times of food availability decline -- Protecting the cities, fighting for survival of the regime -- Hierarchies of hunger and peasant-state relations (1949-1958) -- Preventing urban famine by starving the countryside (1959-1962) -- The burden of empire: the crisis of indigenization in Ukraine and Tibet -- Eating mice for the liberation of Tibet: hunger in official Chinese history -- Genocide against the nation: the counter-narratives of Tibetan and Ukrainian nationalism ER -