Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic, Third Edition

Western imperialism and the weakness of Chinese social classes -- The defection of the intellectuals -- The abortiveness of bourgeois and proletarian revolution -- The Maoist revolution and the Yan'an legacy -- The new state -- The cities: the rise and fall of national capitalism -- Land reform: the bourgeois revolution in the countryside -- The social and political consequences of industrialization -- Agricultural collectivization, 1953-1957 -- The hundred flowers: socialism, bureaucracy, and freedom -- Permanent revolution: the ideological origins of the Great Leap -- Economics of the Great Leap Forward -- The people's communes and the "transition to communism": 1958-1960 -- The bureaucratic restoration -- The new economics policy, 1961-1965 -- The socialist education movement, 1962-1965 -- The concept of cultural revolution -- The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 -- Social results of the Cultural Revolution -- The aftermath of the cultural revolution and the close of the Maoist era, 1969-1976 -- The legacies of the Maoist era -- The rise of Deng Xiaoping and the critique of Maoism -- Market reforms and the development of capitalism -- The struggle for democracy -- The end of the reign of Deng Xiaoping: China in the 1990s