Author : Timothy Cheek
Release : 1997
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis New Perspectives on State Socialism in China by : Timothy Cheek
Download or read book New Perspectives on State Socialism in China written by Timothy Cheek. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New perspectives are presented on an essential issue in CCP historiography: Why when things were working reasonably well by 1956 did the Chinese Communist Party alienate its supporters with radical policies? Placing CCP history firmly in the realm of social history and comparative politics, these enlightening critiques study the roots of the policy failures of the late Maoist period and the remarkable tenacity of the CCP. New insights, surfacing from case studies from the 1990s and recently available documents, address the following: Why is state socialism in China neither the wonder that some hope for nor a total failure? Why has the CCP remained China's only party, while the CPSU in the former Soviet Union -- and particularly the Eastern European socialist regimes that were the same age as China's -- collapsed so quickly? Are there any clues to the CCP's current longevity and radical reforms under party leadership to be found in the formative period of this one-party state?