{"product_id":"the-cultural-revolution-frank-dikotter-9781632864239","title":"The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962--1976","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe concluding volume--following \u003ci\u003eMao's Great Famine \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Tragedy of Liberation--\u003c\/i\u003ein Frank Dik tter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter 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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 \u003c\/i\u003edraws for the first time on hundreds of previously classified party documents, from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches. After the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary people used the political chaos to resurrect the market and hollow out the party's ideology. By showing how economic reform from below was an unintended consequence of a decade of violent purges and entrenched fear, \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e casts China's most tumultuous era in a wholly new light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Dikter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1632864231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632864239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.10d","brand":"Frank Dikter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051466289407,"sku":"9781632864239","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bdfb96b9-1ede-431c-8a11-220fd915ff58.jpg?v=1685013271","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-cultural-revolution-frank-dikotter-9781632864239","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}