China at Mao. Revolution, launched downhill. Walder E.

The book of Andrew Walder tells about the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976 - about the era of amazing achievements and catastrophic failures.

in China under Mao, Walder claims, the institutions created by the institutions created During the first decade of the reign of the Communist Party: a party apparatus, which exercised tight control over its personnel, and a socialist economy, built on the model of the Soviet Union. Although the supervision of this authoritarian system was carried out by the national bureaucracy, Mao resolutely intervened in it at every step.

prescribing as a medicine for the alleged capitalist restoration the continuation of the class struggle against imaginary enemies, Mao destroyed a lot of what he built, And in the end, he did not give the destroyed any viable alternative.