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The Cultural Revolution
by Frank Dikötter (Author),
Bloomsbury Paperbacks (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
About the Book: The Cultural Revolution
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
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9781408856529
Language English
Binding Paper Back
Publisher Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Publishing Date 2017-02-09
Total Pages 432