China under Mao: a revolution derailed

by Walder, Andrew G., (Andrew George)

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Title Statements

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

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.

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Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

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The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 413 p. : : il. ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780674058156, 0674058151
oclc:on1026088779

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.

Subjects

China China -- Política y gobierno -- 1949-19… China -- Politics and government -- 194… Communism -- History -- 20th century. -… Comunismo -- China History Mao, Zedong Problèmes sociaux -- Histoire -- 20e si… Social problems Social problems -- History -- 20th cent…