Mao: The Real Story

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"A new, important history."
—John Pomfret, The Washington Post Mao Zedong was one of the most important figures of the twentieth jMy century, the most important in the history of modern China. A complex figure, he was both a champion of the poor and a brutal tyrant, a poet and a despot. In this major new biography, the authors draw upon extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to reveal surprising details about Mao's rise to power, his leadership in China, and the true nature of his relationship with Stalin.
Mao brought his country from poverty and economic backwardness into the modern age and onto the world stage. But he was alsó responsible for an unprecedented loss of life during the disastrous Great Leap Forward and the bloody Cultural Revolution. He lived and behaved as China's last emperor.
Mao is the full story of Mao's life and rule told as never before.
"Stuffed with important information The authors have opened up the Russian archives and unearthed... Tovább

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"A new, important history."
—John Pomfret, The Washington Post Mao Zedong was one of the most important figures of the twentieth jMy century, the most important in the history of modern China. A complex figure, he was both a champion of the poor and a brutal tyrant, a poet and a despot. In this major new biography, the authors draw upon extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to reveal surprising details about Mao's rise to power, his leadership in China, and the true nature of his relationship with Stalin.
Mao brought his country from poverty and economic backwardness into the modern age and onto the world stage. But he was alsó responsible for an unprecedented loss of life during the disastrous Great Leap Forward and the bloody Cultural Revolution. He lived and behaved as China's last emperor.
Mao is the full story of Mao's life and rule told as never before.
"Stuffed with important information The authors have opened up the Russian archives and unearthed material on Mao that has hitherto been kept secret in Moscow."
—Andrew Roberts, The Wall Street Journal
"This fine book is based on extraordinary access to Soviet archives and documents recentiy published in China and the West, shedding new light on somé aspects of the Chinese leader's
life and career____Pantsov and Levine succeed in conveying a balanced image of Mao's
complex persona and revealing the contradictions in his beliefs and actions."
—Thomas P. Bernstein, Foreign Affairs
Alexander V. Pantsov
Is a professor of history and holds the Edward and Mary Catherine Gerhold Chair in the Humanities at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. Vissza