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The Origins of the Cultural Revolution - Volume 3: The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-1966 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,588
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The Origins of the Cultural Revolution - Volume 3: The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-1966 (Hardcover): Roderick MacFarquhar

The Origins of the Cultural Revolution - Volume 3: The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-1966 (Hardcover)

Roderick MacFarquhar

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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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 1997
Authors: Roderick MacFarquhar (Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science)
Dimensions: 225 x 145 x 46mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 754
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-214997-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN: 0-19-214997-0
Barcode: 9780192149978

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