Mao The Real Story

Name: Mao The Real Story
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ISBN: 9781451654486

ISBN-10: 1451654480

ISBN-13: 9781451654486

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Authors: Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine

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This “comprehensive, judicious, and finely detailed” (Roderick MacFarquhar, The New York Review of Books) biography of Mao Zedong traces how he created a totalitarian government even more destructive and extreme than Stalin’s, while transforming China from an impoverished nation to a leading world power.Drawing on revelatory Russian documents unavailable to previous biographers, Mao: The Real Story traces the ascension to power of one of the most important figures in the twentieth century. A complex individual who was both revolutionary and tyrant, poet and despot, Mao brought China from poverty and medieval backwardness into the modern age—but was responsible for a loss of life at least as…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/29/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 784
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.80" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Steven I. Levine is research faculty associate in the Department of History at the University of Montana and author or editor of four books, including Anvil of Victory: The Communist Revolution in Manchuria, 1945-1948 and America's Wars in Asia:



Cast of Characters


Note on the Spelling of Chinese Words


Introduction: Myths and Realities



The Apprentice



The Foster Child of the Bodhisattva



On the Threshold of a New World



"I Think, Therefore, I Am"



The Sound of Footsteps in a Deserted Valley



Dreams of a Red Chamber



The Great Union of the Popular Masses



Breathing World Revolution, or the Magic of Dictatorship



"Following the Russian Path"



The Lessons of Bolshevik Tactics



The Revolutionary



Entering the Guomindang



Hopes and Disappointments



Playing with Chiang Kai-Shek



The Collapse of the United Front



The Path to the Soviets



Red Banner over the Jinggang Mountains



A Single Spark can start a Prairie Fire



Under the Comintern's Wing



Dog Eat Dog, Communist-Style



The Long March



The Xi'an Incident



The Flirtatious Philosopher



Consolidating Control over the CCP



Stalin, Mao, and the New Democratic Revolution in China



The Dictator



Visit to the Red Mecca



The Korean Adventure



The Contradictions of New Democracy



Socialist Industrialization



The Great Turning Point



The Emancipation of Consciousness



The Great Leap Forward



Famine and Fear



"The Dismissal of Hai Rui from Office"



To Rebel is Justified



The Red Guard Tragedy



The Mystery of Project 571



Death of the Red Emperor


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Illustration Credits



Mao Zedong's Chronology



Mao Zedong's Genealogy


Notes


Bibliography


Index