Title China under Mao : a revolution derailed / Andrew G. Walder

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 413 pages) : illustrations 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 -- Political and social views Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 -- Influence SUBJECT Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 fast Subject Zhongguo gong chan dang -- History -- 20th century. SUBJECT Zhongguo gong chan dang fast Subject Communism -- China -- History -- 20th century Social problems -- China -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- Asia -- China. Communism Economic policy Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Political and social views Politics and government Social problems SUBJECT China -- Politics and government -- 1949-1976. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024173 China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024126 China -- Economic policy -- 1949-1976. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024022 Subject China Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2014037102 ISBN 9780674286689 0674286685

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