Mao's Great Famine  -  Frank Dikötter

The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

KORTE INHOUD

Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up and overtake Britain in less than 15 years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives. Access to Communist Party archives has long been denied to all but the most loyal historians, but now a new law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that fundamentally change the way on...
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2010 Uitgever: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 448 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1408812193 ISBN-13: 9781408812198