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The new regime in China addressed the peasant question by instituting widespread land distribution, which was carried out swiftly and ruthlessly.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Revolution and Counter-Revolution

Having won power in October 1949 substantially on the strength of peasant support, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) treated land reform not as a gradual administrative programme but as an urgent political imperative to be pushed through the entire countryside within a few years, using methods that were deliberately confrontational rather than conciliatory.

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  • The Legal and Institutional Framework
  • The Mechanics of Redistribution
  • Why It Was Carried Out Swiftly and Ruthlessly
  • Consequences of the Campaign

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