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Mao Zedong: A Political and Intellectual Portrait
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Revolutionary and ruler, Marxist and nationalist, liberator and despot, Mao Zedong takes a place among the iconic leaders of the twentieth century. In this book, Maurice Meisner offers a balanced portrait of the man who defined modern China. From his role as leader of a communist revolution in a wartorn and largely rural country to the disasters of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, the relationship between Maos ideas and his political action is highly disputed. With unparalleled authority, Meisner shows how Maos unique sinification of Marxism provides the key to looking at this extraordinary political career. The first part of the book is devoted to Maos revolutionary leadership before 1949, in particular the influence of the liberal and anarchist ideas of the May Fourth era, his discovery of MarxismLeninism and his conviction that peasants held the potential for revolution. In the second part, Meisner analyses Maos early successes as a nationalist unifier and modernizer, the failure of his socialism and his eventual transformation into a tyrant.
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