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...irreconcilable, and Deng's bold experiments could dissolve into economic chaos. It is even possible that they could give way, though probably not until after his death, to at least a partial restoration of the ironfisted, xenophobic rule and extreme regimentation imposed on China by Deng's predecessor Mao Tse-tung. But in 1985 Deng gave fresh evidence of his determination to push his reforms through to their conclusion, whatever that might be. Having essentially completed a transformation in the countryside, where 80% of China's masses live, by freeing peasants to grow what they wish and to start private...
...Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. According to Lenin, Marx's call for a "dictatorship of the proletariat" meant that a tightly organized Communist Party was to be the exclusive dominating force in transforming society. Among the millions attracted by this prescription were two young Chinese, named Mao Tse-tung and Deng Xiaoping, who saw in it a way to change their country from a weak, backward state pushed around by foreign powers to a mighty modern nation. Deng has remained a model Leninist in the sense of countenancing no challenge to the Communist Party's role in leading...
...Tse-Tung and Communist forces take control of China, ousting the Nationalist government...
...former electrician and soldier who lost faith in China's communism based on Mao Tse-tung's radical policies. Wang, 31, was a student leader of the 1989 pro-democracy movement in China and participant in the protests at Tiananmen Square. Before they were forced into exile, both men spent many years in jail for criticizing the communist regime...
Other favorite buys include Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States...