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Mao Zedong: The true story

Mao Zedong: The true story

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The first declassified Soviet archives are disclosed, and the fog of deification and vilification is revealed to reveal Mao Zedong’s passion and tactics as a revolutionary.
The cruelty and blindness of a dictator,
And the complex human nature of being a husband and father. From a young revolutionary who focused on the peasant movement, to an old man in power who involved the whole of China in the struggle.



"Mao Zedong: The True Story" written by two professors, Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine, reveals for the first time the vast and rich Chinese Communist Party in the "Russian Social and Political History State Archives" Confidential documents, including the files of the Executive Committee of the Communist Party of China in the Comintern, the accounts and financial receipts of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the instructions of the Communist International and the Bolshevik Party, the documents of Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky and other Bolshevik leaders, the CCP and The secret report of the Kuomintang representative to the Communist International, as well as many relevant materials on high-ranking CCP members such as Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Deng Xiaoping, and Wang Ming.

Panzov and Liang Siwen used Mao Zedong's personal letters preserved by the Comintern, stenographic records of his talks with Stalin and Khrushchev, Mao Zedong's medical records compiled by Soviet doctors, secret reports of the Soviet State Security Committee (KGB) and Comintern agents, Mao Zedong The personal information of his wife, children, and children, including the birth certificate of the ninth child born in Moscow that was unknown to everyone earlier, reinterprets Mao Zedong's life from a new perspective.

"Mao Zedong: The True Story" is rich and solid in content. The book is divided into 36 chapters, presenting the diverse aspects of Mao Zedong - he was a revolutionary and a tyrant; a poet and a dictator; a philosopher and a politician; a husband and a But show mercy everywhere. Mao Zedong tried his best to prosper the country and consolidate his international status, but he fell into a political and ideological blind alley and was immersed in the cult of personality. Authors Panzov and Liang Siwen liberate Mao Zedong from the stereotypes of saint and devil, restore him to a flesh-and-blood, complex and changeable figure in history, and re-evaluate his political merits and demerits as well as his private life.

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