Mao's China

Klappentext

Originally published in 1957, most of the material collected in this study was extracted from official Chinese Communist publications and whilst the material will inevitably reflect its source, it does represent a valuable body of historical material which allows the author to analyse the historical role of the Maoist bureaucracy in its effort to modernize China and turn it into a great industrial and military power. Various facets of Mao's regime are brought to bear on the central theme: land reform, forced collectivization, the subordination of consumption to accumulation, bureaucratic management of industry, the increasing limitations of workers' legal rights, forced labour, and the erection of a totalitarian police dictatorship. The book also examines the centrifugal and centripetal forces affecting the Moscow-Beijing bloc during the post-war period.

Inhalt

Part 1: Basic Aspects of China's Economic Development 1. The Heritage: China's Economic Backwardness 2. General Problems of the Economic Development of China and their Solutions 3. Economic Achievements and Aims Part 2: The Countryside Under Mao 4. Agrarian Reform 5. Agricultural Taxation 6. Some Other Facets of the Peasant Situation 7. State Monopoly of Trade in Grain and other Agricultural Products 8. The Collectivisation of Agriculture 9. Mao nd the Peasantry: Historical Retrospect Part 3: The Towns Under Mao 10. The State Becomes Owner of Industrial, Trading and Banking Establishments 11. Regimentation of the Working Class 12. Increasing Inequalities Among Workers; Stakhanovism 13. The Role of the Trade Unions 14. Urban Workers' Living Standards 15. Some Generalisations on Peking's Labour Policy 16. Forced Labour 17. Bureaucratic Mismanagement - A Cancer Eating into China's Economy 18. The New Privileged Part 4: The State 19. Introduction 20. Policy Control of Population 21. Propaganda 22. 'Elections' 23. The Party 24. Concentration of State Power 25. The Leader Part 5: China and Russia 26. The 'Nine-Days' War 27. Russia's Looting of Manchuria 28. Did Stalin Help Mao to Come to Power? 29. Russia's Economic Aid to China 30. China and Russia Contend for the Border Regions 31. China, Russia and the West.