Author: Lucien Bianco
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804708272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Analyzes the internal pressures and social crises that fostered the beginnings of the Chinese Revolution

Author: Harold Robert Isaacs
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Author: Wolfgang Franke
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Author: Jack A. Goldstone
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197666302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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"In the 20th and 21st century revolutions have become more urban, often less violent, but also more frequent and more transformative of the international order. Whether it is the revolutions against Communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR; the "color revolutions" across Asia, Europe and North Africa; or the religious revolutions in Iran, Afghanistan, and Syria; today's revolutions are quite different from those of the past. Modern theories of revolution have therefore replaced the older class-based theories with more varied, dynamic, and contingent models of social and political change. This new edition updates the history of revolutions, from Classical Greece and Rome to the Revolution of Dignity in the Ukraine, with attention to the changing types and outcomes of revolutionary struggles. It also presents the latest advances in the theory of revolutions, including the issues of revolutionary waves, revolutionary leadership, international influences, and the likelihood of revolutions to come. This volume provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the nature of revolutions and their role in global history"--

Author: Frank Dik�tter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620403498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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"'The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a "liberation." In China the story of liberation and the revolution that followed is not one of peace, liberty, and justice. It is first and foremost a story of calculated terror and systematic violence.' So begins Frank Dikötter's stunning and revelatory chronicle of Mao Zedong's ascension and campaign to transform the Chinese into what the party called New People. Following the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, after a bloody civil war, Mao hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City, and the world watched as the Communist revolution began to wash away the old order. Due to the secrecy surrounding the country's records, little has been known before now about the eight years that followed, preceding the massive famine and Great Leap Forward. Drawing on hundreds of previously classified documents, secret police reports, unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches, eyewitness accounts of those who survived, and more, The Tragedy of Liberation bears witness to a shocking, largely untold history. Interweaving stories of ordinary citizens with tales of the brutal politics of Mao's court, Frank Dikötter illuminates those who shaped the 'liberation' and the horrific policies they implemented in the name of progress. People of all walks of life were caught up in the tragedy that unfolded, and whether or not they supported the revolution, all of them were asked to write confessions, denounce their friends, and answer queries about their political reliability. One victim of thought reform called it a 'carefully cultivated Auschwitz of the mind.' Told with great narrative sweep, The Tragedy of Liberation is a powerful and important document giving voice at last to the millions who were lost, and casting new light on the foundations of one of the most powerful regimes of the twenty-first century"--

Author: Frank Dikötter
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408837579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution and violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews and memoirs, Frank Dik�tter interweaves the stories of millions of ordinary people with the brutal politics of Mao's court. A gripping account of how people from all walks of life were caught up in a tragedy that sent at least five million civilians to their deaths.

Author: Peng Deng
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819193131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Author: Timothy Cheek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108842771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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A mosaic of lives and voices illustrating the history of the Chinese Communist Party over the last hundred years.

Author: Kan-Chih Ho
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 986

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Author: Roger Childs
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Explores a violent period in Chinese history in which the Guomindang and the Chinese Communist Party vied for power.