The Cultural Revolution

By Frank Dikotter,

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The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikƶtter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China.

After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958ā€“1962, an aging Mao Zedong launched an ambitious scheme to shore upā€¦

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1 author picked The Cultural Revolution as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This harrowing account of the most consequential periods of Communist rule in China is part of a series covering the evolution of the Chinese dictatorship.

I would happily recommend all four of the books, but this one in particular, because it sheds considerable new light on a terrifying series of events that the author has unearthed by diligently studying regional archives containing a wealth of material not researched by other historians. Dikotter is an academic, but these books are not at all dry academic studies.

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