Read The Red Flag: A History of Communism Online
Authors: David Priestland
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B. Cumings,
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M. Frazier,
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J. Fürst (ed.),
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Y. Gorlizki and O. Khlevniuk,
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S. Gundle,
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D. Kertzer,
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A. Knight,
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(Boulder, 2001).
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R. Macfarquhar and M. Schoenhals,
Mao’s Last Revolution
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The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao: From the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward
(Cambridge, Mass., 1989).
R. Madsen,
Morality and Power in a Chinese Village
(Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1984).
Nien Cheng,
Life and Death in Shanghai
(London, 1986).
E. J. Perry and Li Xun,
Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution
(Boulder, 1997).
G. Péteri (ed),
Intellectual Life and the First Crisis of State Socialism in East Central Europe, 1953–1956
(Trondheim, 2001).
J. Sheehan,
Chinese Workers: A New History
(London, 1998).
W. Taubman,
Khrushchev. The Man and his Era
(New York, 2003).
L. T. White,
Policies of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China’s Cultural Revolution
(Princeton, 1989).
S. Woodward,
Socialist Unemployment: the Political Economy of Yugoslavia, 1945–1990
(Princeton, 1995).