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The conscience of the Party : Hu Yaobang, China's communist reformer / Robert L. Suettinger.
Van Pelt Library DS779.26 .S83 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Suettinger, Robert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hu, Yaobang.
- Zhongguo gong chan dang--History.
- Zhongguo gong chan dang.
- China--Politics and government--1976-2002.
- China.
- China--Politics and government--1949-1976.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 479 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "A careful analysis of Hu Yaobang's life and career provides insights not only into his efforts to reform the Chinese Communist Party, but into the toxic political system that caused him to fail, and that continues to hinder and even reverse some of the improvements he introduced."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Born to the Revolution
- Basking in the Light of Mao Zedong
- Winning the Wars, Securing Power
- Growing Doubts
- Into the Maelstrom
- Cultural Revolutions
- Bringing Order out of Chaos
- The Making of a Reformer
- Deng's Wrath and Hu's Fall
- Hu Yaobang and the Fate of Reform.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674272804
- 0674272803
- OCLC:
- 1429575610
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