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Conquest, Robert. The Harvest of Sorrow. London: Hutchinson, 1986. Still the most authoritative account of these events for the Soviet Union.
Davies, R. W. The Socialist Offensive: the Collectivization of Soviet Agriculture, 1929-30. London: Macmillan, 1980. 
Davies, R. W. Crisis and Progress in the Soviet Economy 1931-33. London: Macmillan, 1996. A very detailed account of the economic history of collectivization and industrialisation.
Evans, Grant. Lao Peasants under Socialism and Post-Socialism. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1995. Sets the evolution of official treatment of peasants in Laos within the general framework of collectivization under socialism.
Friedman, Edward, Pickowicz, Paul G., and Selden, Mark. Chinese Village, Socialist State. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. An account of Chinese communist policies towards the peasantry in North China.
Preobrazhensky, E. The New Economics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. Very influential Soviet work of the 1920s that made the general case for some transfer of resources from agriculture to industry, although it made no mention of coercion and the author ran foul of Stalin as part of the Left Opposition in 1927.
Selden, Mark. The Political Economy of Chinese Development. New York: ME Sharpe, 1993. Focuses on the relationship between collectivization and industrialisation in China.
Shanin, Teodor. The Awkward Class: Political Sociology of Peasantry in a Developing Society, Russia 1910-25. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. Portrait of the pre-collectivized peasantry.

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