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The Cultural Revolution - A People's History, 1962--1976 (Paperback)
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The Cultural Revolution - A People's History, 1962--1976 (Paperback)
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List price R528
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Discovery Miles 4 160
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The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy
of Liberation--in Frank Dikoetter's award-winning trilogy
chronicling the Communist revolution in China. After the economic
disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of
lives from 1958-1962, an aging Mao Zedong launched an ambitious
scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as
a threat to his legacy. The Cultural Revolution's goal was to purge
the country of bourgeois, capitalistic elements he claimed were
threatening genuine communist ideology. Young students formed the
Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but soon
rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with
semiautomatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the
country descended into chaos, the military intervened, turning
China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as
many as one in fifty people. The Cultural Revolution: A People's
History, 1962-1976 draws for the first time on hundreds of
previously classified party documents, from secret police reports
to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches. After the army
itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary people used
the political chaos to resurrect the market and hollow out the
party's ideology. By showing how economic reform from below was an
unintended consequence of a decade of violent purges and entrenched
fear, The Cultural Revolution casts China's most tumultuous era in
a wholly new light.
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