The Cultural RevolutionThe Cultural Revolution
a People's History, 1962-1976
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Book, 2017
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Current format, Book, 2017, , Available . Offered in 0 more formats"In 1966 an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to consolidate his legacy, unleashing Red Guards against all remnants of old culture. Soon rival factions were fighting each other in the streets with semi-automatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. The military intervened, turning the country into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people. But after the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary villagers saw an opportunity to undermine the planned economy and resurrect the market - and thereby quietly bury Maoism. Written with unprecedented access to previously classified party documents, from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches, this third chapter in Frank Dikotter's extraordinarily lucid and ground-breaking 'People's Trilogy' is a devastating reassessment of the history of the People's Republic of China."-Book cover.
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- New York : Bloomsbury Press, [2017], ©2016
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