1 Introduction -- 2 The Meaning of the First Decade of Soviet Socialism -- 3 The Political Economy of Utopia: Communism in Soviet Russia, 1918–1921 -- 4 The Political Economy of NEP: Market Relations and Interventionism in Soviet Russia, 1921–1928 -- 5 The Political Economy of Development...

This paper is motivated by the emphasis on secure property rights as a determinant of economic development in recent literature. The authors use village and household level information from about 800 villages throughout China to explore whether legal reform increased protection of land rights...