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The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976

By Frank Dikötter
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By Frank Dikötter
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The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China.

After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958–1962, an aging Mao Zedong launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The Cultural Revolution's goal was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalistic...

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HistoryAsian HistoryWorld HistoryChinese HistoryGeneral & Miscellaneous World HistoryGeneral & Miscellaneous Chinese HistoryWorld History - General & Miscellaneous20th Century Chinese History - People's Republic - 1949-Present