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After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of
lives between 1958 and 1962, an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to shore
up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The stated
goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalist
elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. But the Chairman
also used the Cultural Revolution to turn on his colleagues, some of them longstanding
comrades-in-arms, subjecting them to public humiliation, imprisonment and torture.
Young students formed Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but
soon rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with semi-automatic
weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the country descended into chaos, the
military intervened, turning China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that
crushed as many as one in fifty people.
When the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary people used the
political chaos to resurrect the marked and hollow out the party's ideology. In short, they
buried Maoism. In-depth interviews and archival research at last give voice to the people
and the complex choices they faced, undermining the picture of conformity that is often
understood to have characterised the last years of Mao's regime. By demonstrating that
decollectivisation from below was an unintended consequence of a decade of violent
purges and entrenched fear, Frank Dikotter casts China's most tumultuous era in a
wholly new light.
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.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781408856505
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury India
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Height: 234 mm
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1408856506
  • Publisher Date: May,2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 432
  • Weight: 503.49 gr

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