Stalin and Mao: A Comparison of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions

ISBN-13: 9789882370654 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 480 str.

Lucien Bianco; Krystyna Horko

Opis

This original comparative study of Mao's China and Stalin's Soviet Union highlights the similarities between the two: the all-powerful bureaucracy; the over-exploitation of the peasantry; control over writers and artists; repression and labour camps.

Spis treści

• Foreword Marie-Claire Bergère
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Laggards
• The Social Repercussions of Late Economic Development
• Different Degrees of Cultural Heterogeneity
• Divergence and Ultimate Convergence
• Tsarism: An Even More Desperate Case Than the Guomindang
• The Impact of World Wars and Civil Wars
• Chapter 2 Catching Up
• The Economy
• Qita
• Chapter 3 Politics
• Stages …
• … and Similarities
• Chinese Specificities?
• Appreciation of the Differences and Their Origins
• Chapter 4 The Peasants
• Russia
• China
• Comparison
• Chapter 5 Famines
• Innocent Revolutionaries?
• The Great Turn
• The Great Leap Forward
• Comparisons
• Chapter 6 Bureaucracy
• Numbers
• Working Class Origins
• Mao and the New Chinese Class
• Behavior and Corruption: The Caste and Its Privileges
• After the Purge: The Transformation of the Elite and the Consolidation of Its Privileges
• Chapter 7 Culture
• Cultural Policies: Some Differences among the Massive Similarities
• Inevitable Similarities and Notable Differences in the Face of a Revolutionary Regime
• Chapter 8 The Camps
• Categories of Prisoners
• From Arrest to the Camp
• The Camps
• Thought Reform
• Chapter 9 Dictators
• The Most Cruel
• The Most Inconsistent
• Grand Terror and Cultural Revolution
• Conclusion
• Lenin …
• … and Marx
• Assessment
• Lies, Fear, and Debasement
• Appendix Before and After: Yan’an, 1942–1943
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index