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The Origins of the Cultural Revolution - Volume 3: The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-1966 (Hardcover)
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The Origins of the Cultural Revolution - Volume 3: The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-1966 (Hardcover)
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This is the final volume in a trilogy which examines the politics,
personalities, economics, culture, and international relations of
China from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Roderick MacFarquhar is
the first to use a multitude of new Chinese sources to answer the
question: Why did Chairman Mao Zedong launch the Cultural
Revolution which plunged China into chaos and almost destroyed its
Communist Party? Volume 3 begins with the great famine of the early
1960s which resulted in tens of millions of deaths, setting in
train a series of emergency measures which increasingly divided Mao
from his comrades-in-arms. The Chairman's anger that they were
prepared to adopt `capitalist' methods to rescue the country was
sharpened by his belief that Moscow was denouncing his
revolutionary diplomacy because the Soviet leadership had gone
capitalist and sold out to the `imperialist' West. From 1961 to
1966, the increasingly urgent question for Mao was how to prevent a
similar revolutionary deterioration in China. The Cultural
Revolution, in which tens of thousands of loyal party veterans were
publicly disgraced to make way for a supposedly more leftist
generation of Red Guards, was his answer. Ironically, after it all
ended with Mao's death, one survivor, Deng Xiaoping, was so
appalled at the destructiveness of the Chairman's final cataclysm
that he actually did turn to capitalism to revive the country. This
volume is the first scholarly work for twenty years to focus on the
whole gamut of events - political, economic, intellectual,
military, and international - in the years leading up to the
Cultural Revolution and makes use of a multitude of Chinese
documentary, biographical, and historical works that have only
appeared in the last decade.
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