Book DescriptionOrdinary peoples everyday political behavior can have a huge impact on national policy: that is the central conclusion of this book on Vietnam In telling the story of collectivized agriculture in that country, Benedict J Tria Kerkvliet uncovers a history of local resistance to national policy and gives a voice to the villagers ожафь who effected change Not through open opposition but through their everyday political behavior, villagers individually and in small, unorganized groups undermined collective farming and frustrated authorities efforts to correct the problems The Power of Everyday Politics is an authoritative account, based on extensive research in Vietnams National Archives and in the Red River Delta countryside, of the formation of collective farms in northern Vietnam in the late 1950s, their enlargement during wartime in the 1960s and 1970s, and their collapse in the 1980s As Kerkvliet shows, the Vietnamese government eventually terminated the system, but not for ideological reasons Rather, collectivization had become hopelessly compromised and was ultimately destroyed largely by the activities of villagers Decollectivization began locally among villagers themselves; national policy merely followed The power of everyday politics is not unique to Vietnam, Kerkvliet asserts He advances a theory explaining how everyday activities that do not conform to the behavior required by authorities may carry considerable political weight.  Эта книга2005 г ISBN 0801443016.