Table of Contents
Preface to the 2015 Edition vii
Preface xiii
Notes for the Reader xv
Part I The Long March to Victory
1 The Workers' Revolution 3
2 From Defeat to Victory 19
Part II The People's Republic
3 The First Phase 41
4 The Great Leap Forward and After 55
5 The Cultural Revolution 69
6 After the Cultural Revolution 85
Part III Workers and Peasants in the People's Republic
7 Workers in the 1950s 99
8 Temporary and Contract Labour: The "Worker-Peasant System" 119
9 The Working Class After the Cultural Revolution 129
10 Peasants in the People's Republic 147
Part IV Equality, Democracy and National Independence
11 Equality 167
12 Democracy 187
13 National Independence 203
Part V Proletarian Internationalism
14 The Theory 227
15 Foreign Policy 239
16 Mao Zedong Thought Abroad 265
Part VI The Chinese Communist Party and Marxism
17 Modern Capitalism and the Bourgeois Revolution 287
18 The Soviet Union and the Rise of a New Class 299
19 Mao Zedong Thought 313
Retrospect 327
Index 331