China under Mao : a revolution derailed / Andrew G. Walder.
China under Mao : a revolution derailed / Andrew G. Walder.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
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N951.05/161
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English
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xiv, 413 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Funeral -- From movement to regime -- Rural revolution -- Urban revolution -- The socialist economy -- The evolving party system -- Thaw and backlash -- Great leap -- Toward the Cultural Revolution -- Fractured rebellion -- Collapse and division -- Military rule -- Discord and dissent -- The Mao era...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2015.
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"China's Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976--an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but...
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China under Mao : a revolution derailed / Andrew G. Walder.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-398) and index.
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N951.05/161
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74VKzKPLqE7O
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0674058151 (alkaline paper)
9780674058156 (alkaline paper)
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951.05
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991023403119702626
