Mao
Subtitle: the real story
By: Alexander V. Pantsov with Steven I. Levine
Contributors: Levine, Steven I.
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 792
ISBN-13: 9781451654479; 9781451654493
Subjects: Politics and government; Heads of state; Biography
Work titles: Mao T︠S︡zėdun
Notes: Originally published in Russian: Moskva : Molodaia Gvardiia, 2007, under title Mao Tzėdun.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Note on the Spelling of Chinese Words; title: Cast of Characters; title: Introduction: Myths and Realities; title: pt. 1. The Apprentice; title: The Foster Child of the Bodhisattva; title: On The Threshold Of A New World; title: "I Think, Therefore, I Am"; title: The Sound of Footsteps in a Deserted Valley; title: Dreams of a Red Chamber; title: The Great Union of the Popular Masses; title: Breathing World Revolution, or The Magic Of Dictatorship; title: "Following the Russian Path"; title: The Lessons of Bolshevik Tactics; title: pt. 2. The Revolutionary; title: Entering the Guomindang; title: Hopes and Disappointments; title: Playing with Chiang Kai-shek; title: The Collapse of the United Front; title: The Path to the Soviets; title: Red Banner over the Jinggang Mountains; title: A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire; title: Under the Comintern's Wing; title: Dog Eat Dog Communist-Style; title: The Long March; title: The Xi'an Incident; title: The Flirtatious Philosopher; title: Consolidating Control over the CCP; title: Stalin, Mao, and the New Democratic Revolution in China; title: pt. 3. The Dictator; title: Visit to the Red Mecca; title: The Korean Adventure; title: The Contradictions of New Democracy; title: Socialist Industrialization; title: The Great Turning Point; title: The Emancipation of Consciousness; title: The Great Leap Forward; title: Famine and Fear; title: "The Dismissal of Hai Rui from Office"; title: To Rebel Is Justified; title: The Red Guard Tragedy; title: The Mystery of Project 571; title: Death of The Red Emperor; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix: Mao Zedong's Chronology; title: Appendix: Mao Zedong's Genealogy.