Russo Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1218-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 359 Seiten

Alessandro Russo rethinks the history of China's Cultural Revolution, arguing that it must be understood as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of communism itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Russo, Alessandro

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Part I. A Theatrical Prologue
1. Afterlives of an "Upright Official" 11
2. Political and Historical Dilemmas 26
3. An Unresolved Controversy 48
Part II. Mao's Anxiety and Resolve
4. A Probable Defeat and Revisionism 91
5. Shrinking the Cultural Superego 104
Part III. A Political Test for Class Politics
6. Testing the Organization 141
7. A Subjective Split in the Working Class 167
8. Facing a Self-Defeat 204
Part IV. At the Edge of an Epochal Turning Point
9. Intellectual Conditions for a Political Assessment 239
10. Foundations of Deng Xiaoping's Strategy 263
Notes 285
Bibliography 323
Index 343

Über Autor(innen)

Alessandro Russo has taught sociology at the University of Bologna and has been visiting professor at the University of Washington and at Qinghua University.