1st Edition

China: Liberation and Transformation 1942-1962

By Bill Brugger Copyright 1981
290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

This book, first published in 1981, is a study concerned with the leadership and the people of China during the 1942-1962 period. It analyses the attempt made by the CCP to develop new policies of administration in the wartime base areas and the subsequent transformation of these policies after the Communists came to power. The problems of establishing control over China are detailed, as are... Read more

1. From Yan’an to Victory (1942-1949)  2. The Establishment of Government (1949-1950)  3. Mass Mobilisation (1950-1952)  4. The Soviet Model (1952-1955)  5. The Generalisation of the Yan’an Heritage (1955-1956)  6. ‘Socialist’ Consolidation (1956)  7. From ‘Blooming and Contending’ to ‘Uninterrupted Revolution’ (1957)  8. The Great Leap Forward (1958-1959)  9. The Case of Peng Dehuai and the Brief Revival of the Great Leap (1959-1960)  10. ‘Revisionism’? (1961-1962)

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