The Cultural Revolution: A People&Apos S History 1962—1976 Frank Dikötter Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Αγγλικά Βιβλία World

Acclaimed By The Daily Mail As \ Definitive And Harrowing\ This Is Final Volume Of ‘The People’s Trilogy\ Begun Samuel Johnson Prize-Winning Mao\ S Great Famine Seminal English Language Work On Subject’ Sunday Times‘a Major Contribution To Scholarship Modern China One That Unequalled Certainly In … Both Revealing Rewarding Reading – For Specialists Non-Specialists Alike\ Literary Reviewafter Economic Disaster Leap Forward Claimed Tens Millions Lives Between 1958 1962 An Ageing Mao Launched Ambitious Scheme Shore Up His Reputation Eliminate Those He Viewed A Threat Legacy Stated Goal Cultural Revolution Was Purge Country Bourgeois Capitalist Elements Were Threatening Genuine Communist Ideology But Chairman Also Used Turn Colleagues Some Them Longstanding Comrades-In-Arms Subjecting Public Humiliation Imprisonment Torture Young Students Formed Red Guards Vowing Defend Death Soon Rival Factions Started Fighting Each Other Streets With Semi-Automatic Weapons Name Revolutionary Purity Descended Into Chaos Military Intervened Turning Garrison State Marked Bloody Purges Crushed Many Fifty People When Army Itself Fell Victim Ordinary Political Resurrect Market Hollow Out Party\ Short They Buried Maoism In-Depth Interviews Archival Research At Last Give Voice Complex Choices Faced Undermining Picture Conformity Often Understood Have Characterised Years Regime Demonstrating Decollectivisation From Below Unintended Consequence Decade Violent Entrenched Fear Frank Dikötter Casts China\ Most Tumultuous Era Wholly New Light Written Unprecedented Access Previously Classified Party Documents Secret Police Reports Unexpurgated Versions Leadership Speeches Third Chapter Dikötter\ Extraordinarily Lucid Ground-Breaking People\ Devastating Reassessment History Republic Σελίδες: 448 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0401 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm