Mao: The Real Story

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Mao: The Real Story

This major new biography of Mao uses extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to biographers to reveal surprising details about Maoâ€™s rise to power and leadership in China.

This major new biography of Mao uses extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to biographers to reveal surprising details about Maoâ€™s rise to power and his leadership in China.

Mao Zedong was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, the most important in the history of modern China. A complex figure, he was champion of the poor and brutal tyrant, poet and despot.

Pantsov and Levine show Maoâ€™s relentless drive to succeed, vividly describing his growing role in the nascent Communist Party of China. They disclose startling facts about his personal life, particularly regarding his health and his lifelong serial affairs with young women. They portray him as the loyal Stalinist that he was, who never broke with the Soviet Union until after Stalinâ€™s death.

Mao brought his country from poverty and economic backwardness into the modern age and onto the world stage. But he was also responsible for an unprecedented loss of life. The disastrous Great Leap Forward with its accompanying famine and the bloody Cultural Revolution were Maoâ€™s creations. Internationally Mao began to distance China from the USSR under Khrushchev and shrewdly renewed relations with the U.S. as a counter to the Soviets. He lived and behaved as Chinaâ€™s last emperor.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber NUSBK20160901-C047571
ReleaseDate 2012-10-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451654479

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	NUSBK20160901-C047571
ReleaseDate	2012-10-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781451654479

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