Nearly 150 original photographs, documents, and artefacts on the LandReform campaign that abolished feudalism and heightened peasants’ownership power in North Vietnam between 1946 and 1957 are beingexhibited in Hanoi from September 8.
Thehistoric campaign, one of the most important periods in North Vietnam, redefined the northern region by redistributing agricultural landamongst the general population with the revolutionary motto of “returnland to the peasants”.
The exhibition is structuredaround two main themes. The first, “Rural areas in Vietnam beforethe Land Reform campaign”, portrays the difference between the life oflandlords and peasants in the country before 1945. The second, “the LandReform campaign 1946-1957” features Vietnam Government and Partydocuments that highlight the reform’s errors, corrections, progress andits eventual achievements.
Before Vietnam ’sAugust Revolution in 1945, the Vietnamese peasantry, which accounted for95 percent of the northern region’s population, owned a meagre 30percent of the region’s agricultural land.
By theend of the campaign, 810,000 ha of agricultural land were redistributedto around 2.2 million Vietnamese peasants (72.8 percent of the northernrural population), according to the Vietnam National Museum of History.
Among original documents exhibited are President HoChi Minh’s speech at the 5 th National Conference on Land Reform, the1957 National Decree on Land Reform, and a certificate of land ownershipissued to peasants in Ninh Binh province.
“Onlywith land reform that returns the land to our peasants and frees theworkforce from the landlords’ chains and shackles, can we end thesickening poverty and backwardness of our peasants,” President Ho ChiMinh wrote in a report to the National Assembly’s third meeting inDecember 1953.
Thanks to the numerous measuresimplemented, by the end of 1957 the land reform campaign was a completesuccess, strengthening Party leadership, fuelling agriculturalproduction and fostering the worker-peasant alliance.
The exhibition, organised by the Vietnam National Museum of History, will run till the end of 2014.-VNA
Thehistoric campaign, one of the most important periods in North Vietnam, redefined the northern region by redistributing agricultural landamongst the general population with the revolutionary motto of “returnland to the peasants”.
The exhibition is structuredaround two main themes. The first, “Rural areas in Vietnam beforethe Land Reform campaign”, portrays the difference between the life oflandlords and peasants in the country before 1945. The second, “the LandReform campaign 1946-1957” features Vietnam Government and Partydocuments that highlight the reform’s errors, corrections, progress andits eventual achievements.
Before Vietnam ’sAugust Revolution in 1945, the Vietnamese peasantry, which accounted for95 percent of the northern region’s population, owned a meagre 30percent of the region’s agricultural land.
By theend of the campaign, 810,000 ha of agricultural land were redistributedto around 2.2 million Vietnamese peasants (72.8 percent of the northernrural population), according to the Vietnam National Museum of History.
Among original documents exhibited are President HoChi Minh’s speech at the 5 th National Conference on Land Reform, the1957 National Decree on Land Reform, and a certificate of land ownershipissued to peasants in Ninh Binh province.
“Onlywith land reform that returns the land to our peasants and frees theworkforce from the landlords’ chains and shackles, can we end thesickening poverty and backwardness of our peasants,” President Ho ChiMinh wrote in a report to the National Assembly’s third meeting inDecember 1953.
Thanks to the numerous measuresimplemented, by the end of 1957 the land reform campaign was a completesuccess, strengthening Party leadership, fuelling agriculturalproduction and fostering the worker-peasant alliance.
The exhibition, organised by the Vietnam National Museum of History, will run till the end of 2014.-VNA
