The Cultural Revolution: A Peoples History, 1962--1976 Dikotter Frank Paperback
The Cultural Revolution: A Peoples History, 1962--1976 Dikotter Frank Paperback The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dik tter's award-winning…
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The Cultural Revolution: A Peoples History, 1962--1976 Dikotter Frank Paperback
The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dik tter'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. 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. The Cultural Revolution's goal was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalistic elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology.
As the country descended into chaos, the military intervened, turning China into a garrison
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