Origins of the Cultural Revolution The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961-1966

Name: Origins of the Cultural Revolution The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961-1966
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ISBN: 9780231110839

ISBN-10: 0231110839

ISBN-13: 9780231110839

Edition: 1999

Authors: Roderick MacFarquhar

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This volume 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.

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/23/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.46" long x 1.56" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English



List of Tables


List of Plates


Abbreviations


Introduction



Birth and Death Rates



The Third Bitter Year



The Central Committee's Ninth Plenum



Emergency Measures



A New Course in the Countryside



A Plethora of Plans



Reds and Experts



China's Isolation



False Dawn



The Seven Thousand Cadres Conference



The Changguanlou Incident



Economic Crunch



The Dispute over Collectivization



Resuscitating the United Front



The Curious Case of the 'Three-Family Village'



Class Struggle



Mao Changes the Signals



War in the Himalayas, Crisis in the Caribbean



Mao in Charge



Comparative Dictatorial Roles and Styles



The Socialist Education Movement



The Sino-Soviet Rupture and the Vietnam War



The End of the Yan'an Round Table



Woman Warrior



From Grey Eminence to Red Leader



Mao Stoops to Conquer



The Coming of the Cataclysm


Conclusions


Abbreviations used in the Notes


Notes


Bibliography


Index