The agricultural system of the former Soviet Union of Russia — the kolkhoz had been originated at the hand of Lenin, and fully established by Stalin. During the second World War and in the period of economic recovery immediately after war, the kolkhoz system showed much vitality. As time went by, however, its inherent defects were increasingly exposed, and it became the main drag encumbering the growth, not only of agricultural sector, but also of the whole economy of Russia. The pass-away of Stalin in 1953 brought forth a good chance for reforming Russian traditional agricultural system. Since then, every successor-leader of USSR had his own version of agricultural reform program executed, but to no good avail, until Boris Yeltsin. Yeltsin started a radical reform program based on private ownership. In China, as regards the peasant problem, Mao Tsetung was deeply impressed by the theory of Lenin and Stalin and embraced their practice almost to the letter. The people’s commune system in mainland China had been built up according to the model of kolkhoz. The Russian connection, however, was completely jettisond by Deng Xaioping, who went his own way in agricultural reform, and achieved greater successes.
