Cambodian forced collectivization and reconstruction
캄보디아의 강제집단화와 전후 재건
Democratic Kampuchea in 1975–1979 must be distinguished from the People’s Republic of Kampuchea after 1979. The former imposed urban evacuation and forced labor and abolished money and banking; the latter restored production, money and trade.
In depth
Democratic Kampuchea in 1975–1979 must be distinguished from the People’s Republic of Kampuchea after 1979. The former imposed urban evacuation and forced labor and abolished money and banking; the latter restored production, money and trade.
Khmer Rouge collective farming operated alongside forced displacement, food controls, executions and persecution. Heng Samrin’s government combined state, cooperative and household activity with Vietnamese and Soviet-bloc support. Treating them as one uninterrupted agrarian model obscures these differences.
Demographic losses and damaged infrastructure constrained reconstruction. Late-1980s marketization also expanded existing household production and private exchange. Coercive targets, actual output and reconstruction statistics must remain distinct.