Just to take one example of the glories of the collectivization of the peasantry, how about North Vietnam? Gabriel Kolko in his history of the Vietnam War relies on Edwin Moises, " "Land Reform and Land Reform Errors in North Vietnam," Pacific Affairs, Vol. 49, No. 1; Spring 1976 and, "LAND REFORM IN CHINA AND NORTH VIETNAM: CONSOLIDATING THE REVOLUTION AT THE VILLAGE LEVEL, " The University of North Carolina Press, 1983. Moises, is quite explicit that even low and medium level cadre of the Vietnamese Workers Party (VCP), on the village level, were liquidated, on the logic of a class definition of a Kulak that meant if you had a cow you were a counterrevolutionary.If you had a cow and a pig, ay carumba!
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/landbook.html
> ...The Communist Party in Vietnam had followed united front policies
> during the early years of its war for independence against the French,
> but was shifting to class struggle by the late stages of that war. A
> formal land reform campaign began on a small scale at the end of 1953,
> and then spread; most of the villages of North Vietnam were covered in
> the final year of the campaign, from mid-1955 to mid-1956. This final
> year was also the most radical period, with many peasants falsely
> labelled as landlords and subjected to the confiscation of their land,
> and many Communist Party members purged from village-level party branches
> on false charges that they were landlords or landlord agents. Substantial
> numbers of people were executed, though not the huge numbers later
> claimed by some anti-Communist propagandists. In the latter half of 1956,
> the party recognized that it had made serious errors; a campaign to
> correct the errors lasted into 1958.
This study is based mainly on contemporary Chinese and Vietnamese sources, some read in the original languages, some in translation.