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Price: 7,76€
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This major new biography of Mao uses extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to biographers to reveal surprising details about Mao’s rise to power and his leadership in China.
Mao Zedong was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, the most important in the history of modern China. A complex figure, he was champion of the poor and brutal tyrant, poet and despot.
Pantsov and Levine show Mao’s relentless drive to succeed, vividly describing his growing role in the nascent Communist Party of China. They disclose startling facts about his personal life, particularly regarding his health and his lifelong serial affairs with young women. They portray him as the loyal Stalinist that he was, who never broke with the Soviet Union until after Stalin’s death.
Mao brought his country from poverty and economic backwardness into the modern age and onto the world stage. But he was also responsible for an unprecedented loss of life. The disastrous Great Leap Forward with its accompanying famine and the bloody Cultural Revolution were Mao’s creations. Internationally Mao began to distance China from the USSR under Khrushchev and shrewdly renewed relations with the U.S. as a counter to the Soviets. He lived and behaved as China’s last emperor.
ASIN : B006VJXCNQ
Editore : Simon & Schuster; Illustrated edizione (2 ottobre 2012)
Lingua : Inglese
Dimensioni file : 22136 KB
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Screen Reader : Supportato
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Lunghezza giornalisti : 785 pagine
michele –
Complete and detailed
Complete and detailed, maybe too much if you are not an expert in Chinese history,but, in that case, you always have the option to skip (some) paragraphs of the 700 pages of the book. Mao’s life is really worthy to be investigated if a more comprehensive understanding of modern China is what you are trying to ahieve. I believe that a TV series about Mao’s story based on this book would have great success: it covers every aspect of human life. Power, blood, love, philosophy, war, tradition, revolution, freedom, dictatorship.
Kindle Customer –
Detailed and documented presentation of Mao Ze Dong’ s life story, as well as the birth of the Chinese Communist Party. Occasionally, motivations are necessarily based on speculation, but even these are mostly grounded in related facts. Author’s style is compelling and easily understood.
Rounak Das –
A must read for anyone who wishes to understand Chinese politics and the politics of the 20th century.
P J D –
Excellent read.
Ronny –
It is actually a very well written and balanced book. It traces the unusual steps that Mao has taken to become the strong man that he always wanted to be, and explained some of the insane decisions that he has made.It is sad to read this book and understand how Chinese population was duped (as well as some well intentioned revolutionaries within CPC) to believe a democratic revolution was in making, and interesting to have another angle on why the constant class warfare was Mao’s favorite activity.I would suggest to buy used for this book
Amazon Customer –
Good book, but ‘left over’ quality. Pages on cheaper paper, and bad cut. Looks unfinished, from ‘bad bacth’ : hence the price? (always tricky with cheaper books)