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China under Mao : a revolution derailed
- Title
- China under Mao : a revolution derailed / Andrew G. Walder.
- Author
- Walder, Andrew G. (Andrew George), 1953-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 413 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976. Andrew G. Walder argues that Mao's China was defined by two distinctive institutions: a Party apparatus that exercised firm discipline over its members; and a socialist economy modeled after the Soviet Union. Although a large bureaucracy had oversight of this authoritarian system, Mao intervened at every turn. The doctrines and political organization that produced Mao's greatest achievements--victory in the civil war, the creation of China's first modern state, a historic transformation of urban and rural life--also generated his worst failures: the industrial depression and rural famine of the Great Leap Forward and the destruction and stagnation of the Cultural Revolution. Misdiagnosing China's problems as capitalist restoration and prescribing continuing class struggle against imaginary enemies, Mao ruined much of what he had built and created no viable alternative"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 > Political and social views
- Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 > Influence
- Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
- Zhongguo gong chan dang > History > 20th century
- Zhongguo gong chan dang
- Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976)
- 1900 - 1999
- Communism > China > History > 20th century
- Social problems > China > History > 20th century
- Communism
- Economic policy
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Political and social views
- Political science
- Social problems
- China > Politics and government > 1949-1976
- China > History > Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
- China > Economic policy > 1949-1976
- China
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 in retrospect.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-2953
- ISBN
- 9780674058156
- 0674058151
- LCCN
- 2014037102
- OCLC
- 893709377
- Author
- Walder, Andrew G. (Andrew George), 1953-
- Title
- China under Mao : a revolution derailed / Andrew G. Walder.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-2953