Benson of Cowley

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This is the final volume in a trilogy which examines the politics, personalities, economics, culture, and international relations of China from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Roderick MacFarquhar is the first to use a multitude of new Chinese sources to answer the question: Why did Chairman Mao Zedong launch the Cultural Revolution which plunged China into chaos and almost destroyed its Communist Party? Volume 3 begins with the great famine of the early 1960s which resulted in tens of millions of deaths, setting in train a series of emergency measures which increasingly divided Mao from his comrades-in-arms. The Chairman's anger that they were prepared to adopt 'capitalist' methods to rescue the country was sharpened by his belief that Moscow was denouncing his revolutionary diplomacy because the Soviet leadership had gone capitalist and sold out to the 'imperialist' West. From 1961 to 1966, the increasingly urgent question for Mao was how to prevent a similar revolutionary deterioration in China. The Cultural Revolution, in which tens of thousands of loyal party veterans were publicly disgraced to make way for a supposedly more leftist generation of Red Guards, was his answer. Ironically, after it all ended with Mao's death, one survivor, Deng Xiaoping, was so appalled at the destructiveness of the Chairman's final cataclysm that he actually did turn to capitalism to revive the country. This volume is the first scholarly work for twenty years to focus on the whole gamut of events - political, economic, intellectual, military, and international - in the years leading up to the Cultural Revolution and makes use of a multitude of Chinese documentary, biographical, and historical works that have only appeared in the last decade.

Contradictions among the people, 1956-1957 (The origins of the Cultural Revolution)

Roderick MacFarquhar

This Stage-Play World: English Literature and Its Background, 1580-1625

The later years of Elizabeth and the reign of James I were the age of Shakespeare, but the age also of Sidney, Spenser, and Donne, of fellow dramatists Marlowe, Jonson, and Webster, and of the prose writers Nashe, Bacon, and Burton. This book examines the social conditions that produced this uniquely dazzling array of talent, and relates them closely to the literature of the period. In this extensively revised new edition, Julia Briggs has included two new chapters which examine the role of women, the family, travelers and `outsiders' within the social and literary contexts of the period.

This stage-play world: English literature and its background, 1580-1625

BRIGGS, Julia

Literature & Fiction

xvi 246p hardback with pink dustjacket, index of Beethoven's work, from a Cambridge college library with usual library markings, clean and firm

Beethoven Studies: v.1

Arts & Photography

Music

Suitable for absolute beginners, this book contains colour illustrations. It is useful for very young children and it aims to encourage security at every step.

Tunes for Ten Fingers

Pauline Hall

Piano Time: Stage One 1

HALL

Easy piano pieces - good for beginners

Piano Time Pieces Book 3

Life in Egypt under Roman rule

Lewis, Naphtali

The Memoirs of Prota Matija Nenadovic

History

Mateja Nenadovic

Europe

Book by Edward Walter Hamilton Dudley W R Bahlman

The diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton, 1880-1885;

Bahlman, Dudley W. R. (edit)

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