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The Origins of the Cultural Revolution
Roderick MacFarquhar · 1974 · 455 pages
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This volume begins with the great famine of the early 1960s which resulted in tens of millions of deaths, setting in train a series of emergency measures which increasingly divided Mao from his comrades-in-arms.
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Best Books on the Great Leap Forward and the Chinese Famine, in Reading Order
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