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100 1 $aDavin, Delia,$eauthor.
245 10$aMao :$ba very short introduction /$cDelia Davin.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c2013.
300 $axvi, 142 p. :$bill. ;$c18 cm.
490 1 $aVery short introductions ;$v348.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 129-138) and index.
505 0 $aFormative years -- Marxist Labour organizer to Peasant Revolutionary -- Achieving pre-eminence 1934-1949 -- The revolution institutionalized: first years of the People's Republic -- The Great Leap Forward and its Aftershocks -- The Cultural Revolution -- Decline and death -- Assessments and legacies.
520 $a"A giant of 20th century history, Mao Zedong played many roles: peasant revolutionary, patriotic leader against theJapanese occupation, Marxist theoretician, modernizer, andvisionary despot. This Very Short Introduction chronicles Mao's journey from peasant child to ruler of the most populous nation on Earth. Delia Davin provides an invaluable portrait of Mao, showing him in all his complexity-ruthless, brutal, and ambitious, a man of enormous talent and perception, yet a leader who is still detested by some and venerated by others. She shows how hehelped found both the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Army, and how for many years he fought on two fronts, for control of the Party and in an armed struggle for the Party's control of the country. His revolution unified China and began its rise to world power status. He was thearchitect of the Great Leap Forward that he hoped would make China both prosperous and egalitarian, but instead ended in economic disaster resulting in millions of deaths. It was Mao's growing suspicion of his fellow leaders that led him to launch the Cultural Revolution, and his last years were dogged by ill-health and his despairing attempts to find a successor. Davis also looks at the years of his death, when the reform leadership abandoned Mao's revolutionary goals and embraced the market."--Publisher's website.
600 10$aMao, Zedong,$d1893-1976.
650 0$aHeads of state$zChina$vBiography.
830 0$aVery short introductions ;$v348.