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The Origins Of The Cultural Revolution: Volume 2. The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960 (v. 2) by Roderick MacFarquhar; Royal Institute of International Affairs.; Columbia University. East Asian Institute.; Columbia University. Research Institute on International Change is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 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,

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Author

Roderick MacFarquhar; Royal Institute of International Affairs.; Columbia University. East Asian Institute.; Columbia University. Research Institute on International Change

Publisher

The Royal Institute of Internattional Affairs The East Asian Institute of Columbia University and Th

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192149954

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Sociology