Bibliograph

Mao, Jonathan Spence

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Mao, Jonathan Spence

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references(p. 179-188) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mao

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Jonathan Spence

Series statement

Penguin life

Summary

"Both a canny tactician and a hardworking organizer, Mao parlayed the privations of the famous Long March and the success of his guerrilla army into a powerful cult of personality and a dominant position in the burgeoning Chinese Communist Party. The Communist victory in 1949 not only elevated him to supreme leader but made his eccentric version of Marxism official dogma; his regime was a volatile mixture of power and mystique that exploded in the havoc of the Cultural Revolution."

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