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

    Written by Frank Dikötter

    Narrated by Paul Costanzo

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    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 stated goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalistic elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. Young students formed the Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but soon rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with semiautomatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the country descended into chaos, the military intervened, turning China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people.

    The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 draws for the first time on hundreds of previously classified party documents, from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches. Frank Dikötter uses this wealth of material to undermine the picture of complete conformity that is often supposed to have characterized the last years of the Mao era.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 8, 2016
    ISBN9781515983644
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    The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
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    Frank Dikötter

    Frank Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His books have changed the way historians view China, from the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China to his award-winning People's Trilogy documenting the lives of ordinary people under Mao. He is married and lives in Hong Kong.

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      +research, work, writing. Too many repeats in V3. Understandable excess
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      I'm not really qualified to review this, but I learned a lot.