Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Dikötter, Frank (1961-....)
Titre(s) : The cultural revolution [Texte imprimé] : a people's history, 1962-76 / Frank Dikötter
Publication : London : Bloomsbury, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXV-396 p.-[16] p. de pl.) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-379) and index
After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions
of lives between 1958 and 1962, an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to shore
up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The stated
goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalist
elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. But the Chairman
also used the Cultural Revolution to turn on his colleagues, some of them longstanding
comrades-in-arms, subjecting them to public humiliation, imprisonment and torture.
Young students formed Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but
soon rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with semi-automatic
weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the country descended into chaos,
the military intervened, turning China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges
that crushed as many as one in fifty people. When the army itself fell victim to the
Cultural Revolution, ordinary people used the political chaos to resurrect the marked
and hollow out the party's ideology. In short, they buried Maoism. In-depth interviews
and archival research at last give voice to the people and the complex choices they
faced, undermining the picture of conformity that is often understood to have characterised
the last years of Mao's regime. By demonstrating that decollectivisation from below
was an unintended consequence of a decade of violent purges and entrenched fear, Frank
Dikotter casts China's most tumultuous era in a wholly new light. Written with unprecedented
access to previously classified party documents from secret police reports to unexpurgated
versions of leadership speeches, this third chapter in Frank Dikotter's extraordinarily
lucid and ground-breaking 'People's Trilogy' is a devastating reassessment of the
history of the People's Republic of China
Sujet(s) : Chine -- 1966-1969 (Révolution culturelle)
Genre ou forme : Récits personnels
Indice(s) Dewey :
951.056 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Chine - 1960-1969
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781408856499. - ISBN 1408856492. - ISBN 9781408856505. - ISBN 1408856506. -
ISBN 9781408856529 (br.). - ISBN 1408856522. - ISBN 9781408856512 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb466891024
Notice n° :
FRBNF46689102
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Part One. The Early Years (1962-1966) ; Two Dictators ; Never Forget Class Struggle
; War on the Cultural Front ; Clique of Four.
Part Two. The Red Years (1966-1968) ; Poster Wars ; Red August ; Destroying the
Old World ; Mao Cult ; Linking Up ; Rebels And Royalists ; Enter the Army ; The
Arms Race ; Quenching The Fires.
Part Three. The Black Years (1968-1971) ; Cleansing the Ranks ; Up the Mountains,
Down to the Villages ; Preparing for War ; Learning From Dazhai ; More Purges
; Fall of an Heir.
Part Four. The Grey Years (1971-1976) ; Recovery ; The Silent Revolution ; The
Second Society ; Reversals ; Aftermath.
