Thomas Paul Bernstein (born April 11, 1937) is an American political scientist and specialist in the Chinese political economy and communist systems. He is an emeritus professor at

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Biography

Bernstein earned his Ph.D. from

and joined the Columbia faculty in 1975. Bernstein has written about the

collectivization of agriculture Collective farming and communal farming are various types of, "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise". There are two broad types of communal farms: agricultural cooperatives, in which member- ...

in the Soviet Union and China, state-peasant relations, economic growth during China's

reform and opening The Chinese economic reform or reform and opening-up (), known in the West as the opening of China, is the program of economic reforms termed " Socialism with Chinese characteristics" and "socialist market economy" in the People's Republic of Ch ...

period, and Sino-Soviet relations. He served as two-time chairman of Columbia's department of political science and retired from teaching in 2007. Bernstein received a 1981

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

References

Living people Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni {{DEFAULTSORT:Bernstein, Thomas P. Columbia University faculty American political scientists 1937 births