Stalin and Mao : a comparison of the Russian and Chinese revolutions / by Lucien Bianco ; translated from the French edition La récidive: Révolution russe, révolution chinoise by Krystyna Horko.

• ch. 1 The Laggards -- The Social Repercussions of Late Economic Development -- Different Degrees of Cultural Heterogeneity -- Divergence and Ultimate Convergence -- Tsarism: An Even More Desperate Case Than the Guomindang -- The Impact of World Wars and Civil Wars -- ch. 2 Catching Up -- The Economy -- Qita -- ch. 3 Politics -- Stages... -- ...And Similarities -- Chinese Specificities? -- Appreciation of the Differences and Their Origins -- ch. 4 The Peasants -- Russia -- China -- Comparison -- ch. 5 Famines -- Innocent Revolutionaries? -- The Great Turn -- The Great Leap Forward -- Comparisons -- ch. 6 Bureaucracy -- Numbers -- Working Class Origins -- Mao and the New Chinese Class -- Behavior and Corruption: The Caste and Its Privileges -- After the Purge: The Transformation of the Elite and the Consolidation of Its Privileges -- ch. 7 Culture -- Cultural Policies: Some Differences among the Massive Similarities -- Inevitable Similarities and Notable Differences in the Face of a Revolutionary Regime -- ch. 8 The Camps -- Categories of Prisoners -- From Arrest to the Camp -- The Camps -- Thought Reform -- ch. 9 Dictators -- The Most Cruel -- The Most Inconsistent -- Grand Terror and Cultural Revolution -- Conclusion -- Lenin... -- ...And Marx -- Assessment -- Lies, Fear, and Debasement.

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