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Roderick MacFarquhar is represented in the Globusz Books library by 2 reviewed books. This page brings those summaries together so readers can compare the author’s available work before choosing what to read.
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Reviewed summary
Roderick MacFarquhar unpacks the decades-long buildup to China’s Cultural Revolution, revealing it as a slow-burning crisis rather than a sudden upheaval. This trilogy exposes how ideology, power struggles, and catastrophic policies like the Great Leap Forward fractured the Communist Party and set the stage for chaos. What happens when revolutionary ideals collide with harsh political realities?
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Roderick MacFarquhar unpacks the tangled contradictions that led to China’s Cultural Revolution, showing it as a slow burn rather than a sudden explosion. Power struggles, ideological battles, and economic disasters all collided to ignite one of the 20th century’s most chaotic political upheavals. How does a revolution devour its own leaders? This book offers the answer.
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