Title Mao / Shaun Breslin

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Series Profiles In power Profiles in power (London, England) Contents Ch. 1. From peasant to power -- chapter 2. Establishing the new political order : Maoism and its critics -- chapter 3. The first major cleavage : 1949-1957 -- chapter 4. Towards the cultural revolution -- chapter 5. Launching the cultural revolution -- chapter 6. Mao and the world -- chapter 7. The politics of de-Maoisation Summary Examines Mao as a revolutionary general and founder of the leader of the world's largest nation. Explores Mao's career as an astute and often brutal political manipulator . Looks at how Mao became a victim of his own obsession with power. Shaun Breslin explores the career of Mao Zedung (1892-1976) from a number of angles, as revolutionary general, as founder and leader of the world's largest nation for almost thirty convulsive years, as ideologist, as astute and often brutal political manipulator and ultimately as a victim of his own obsession with power. There are two stories here, how Mao established a communist party state in mainland China and what he accomplished as its leader. The triumph of 1949 was won after a quarter-century of epic struggle. Not only did Mao and the Communists withstand the attacks of the ruling nationalists party and Japanese invasion in 1937, But Mao also had to wage his own battle within the movement against those who looked to Moscow to show the way forward. To survive such circumstances was achievement enough and Mao's overwhelming victory helps us understand his subsequent status in the China he created. But after establishing a new regime, Mao embarked on a number of radical experiments to transform China and classless society. Even after failures, he was determined to ensure that his revolutionary radicalism would outlive him. Ironically, his extreme actions undermined it and Maosim, and Mao's China, died wit him in 1976. "Mao" is a crisply written and very interesting appraisal of one of the most controversial shapers of the modern world. And, as the other titles in the "Profiles in Power" series, it is not a biography, though inevitably it contains much biographical material, it instead analyzes the major features, achievements and failures of Mao's career Notes Originally published: 2012 by Pearson Education Limited Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 SUBJECT Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 fast Subject Heads of state -- China -- Biography Leaders BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- Asia -- China. Heads of state Politics and government SUBJECT China -- Politics and government -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024174 Subject China Genre/Form Electronic books Biographies Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317874829 131787482X 9781315837758 1315837757 9781317874805 1317874803 9781317874812 1317874811 9781138171886 1138171883

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