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A Social History of Maoist China

By: Felix Wemheuer

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A Social History of Maoist China

By: Felix Wemheuer

This new social history of Maoist China provides an accessible view of the complex and tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107123704

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9781107123700

Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union

By: Felix Wemheuer

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Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union

By: Felix Wemheuer

During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political roots of these socialist-era famines, in which overambitious industrial programs endorsed by Stalin and Mao Zedong created greater disasters than those suffered under prerevolutionary regimes. Focusing on famine as a political tool, Wemheuer systematically exposes how conflicts about food among peasants, urban populations, and the socialist state resulted in the starvation death of millions. A major contribution to Chinese and Soviet history, this provocative analysis examines the long-term effects of the great famines on the relationship between the state and its citizens and argues that the lessons governments learned from the catastrophes enabled them to overcome famine in their later decades of rule.

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Yale University Press

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030020678X

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9780300206784

Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union

By: Felix Wemheuer

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A Social History of Maoist China

Conflict and Change, 1949–1976

By: Felix Wemheuer

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A Social History of Maoist China

Conflict and Change, 1949–1976

By: Felix Wemheuer

When the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, they promised to 'turn society upside down'. Efforts to build a communist society created hopes and dreams, coupled with fear and disillusionment. The Chinese people made great efforts towards modernization and social change in this period of transition, but they also experienced traumatic setbacks. Covering the period 1949 to 1976 and then tracing the legacy of the Mao era through the 1980s, Felix Wemheuer focuses on questions of class, gender, ethnicity, and the urban-rural divide in this new social history of Maoist China. He analyzes the experiences of a range of social groups under Communist rule - workers, peasants, local cadres, intellectuals, 'ethnic minorities', the old elites, men and women. To understand this tumultuous period, he argues, we must recognize the many complex challenges facing the People's Republic. But we must not lose sight of the human suffering and political terror that, for many now ageing quietly across China, remain the period's abiding memory.

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1108626556

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9781108626552

Mao Zedong

By: Felix Wemheuer

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Mao Zedong

By: Felix Wemheuer

Mao Zedong (1893-1976) ist eine der wirkungsmächtigsten, aber auch umstrittensten politischen Persönlichkeiten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Und Chinas Einfluss in der Welt ist heute größer denn je. Felix Wemheuer zeichnet ein differenziertes Bild des Revolutionsführers und Machtpolitikers Mao, seiner größten Erfolge und seiner schwersten Verbrechen. Das Bildmaterial der Printausgabe ist in diesem E-Book nicht enthalten.

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Rowohlt Verlag GmbH

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3644010196

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9783644010192

Book's by Felix Wemheuer

A Social History of Maoist China

A Social History of Maoist China

Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union

Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union

Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union

Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union

A Social History of Maoist China

A Social History of Maoist China

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