In Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture, Alessandro Russo
presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a
mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the
tenets of communism. Russo explores four critical phases of the
Cultural Revolution, each with its own reworking of communist
political subjectivity: the historical-theatrical "prologue" of
1965; Mao's attempts to shape the Cultural Revolution in 1965 and
1966; the movements and organizing between 1966 and 1968 and the
factional divides that ended them; and the mass study campaigns
from 1973 to 1976 and the unfinished attempt to evaluate the
inadequacies of the political decade that brought the Revolution to
a close. Among other topics, Russo shows how the dispute around the
play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office was not the result of a Maoist
conspiracy, but rather a series of intense and unresolved political
and intellectual controversies. He also examines the Shanghai
January Storm and the problematic foundation of the short-lived
Shanghai Commune. By exploring these and other political-cultural
moments of Chinese confrontations with communist principles, Russo
overturns conventional wisdom about the Cultural Revolution.
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