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The Conscience of the Party : Hu Yaobang, China's Communist Reformer / Robert L. Suettinger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Suettinger, Robert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hu, Yaobang.
- Zhongguo gong chan dang--History.
- Zhongguo gong chan dang.
- Communist revisionism.
- China--Politics and government--1976-2002.
- China.
- China--Politics and government--1949-1976.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (488 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- The definitive biography of Hu Yaobang, who, as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s, promoted popular reforms and took aim at Mao's personality cult. When Hu's popularity and politics grew too dangerous for the party, he was purged and suppressed in memory--but not before his death inspired the Tiananmen demonstrations.
- Contents:
- Introduction : "Soul of the Nation"
- 1. Born to the Revolution
- 2. Basking in the light of Mao Zedong
- 3. Winning the wars, securing power
- 4. Growing doubts
- 5. Into the maelstrom
- 6. Cultural revolutions
- 7. Bringing order out of chaos
- 8. The making of a reformer
- 9. Deng's wrath and Hu's fall
- 10. Hu Yaobang and the fate of reform.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780674298309
- 0674298306
- OCLC:
- 1458763698
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