The Origins of the Cultural Revolution: Volume II, The Great Leap Forward 1958–1960

Roderick MacFarquhar

I: Change

1. Mao in Moscow

2. The Politburo Tours China

3. The Chengtu Conference

4. The Leap is Launched

5. The Coming of the Communes

6. High Tide

II: Retreat

7. Withdrawal at Wuhan

8. Mao Veers Right

9. Chairman Liu

III: Clash

10. High Noon at Lushan

IV: Defeat

11. The Sino-Soviet Split Emerges

12. The End of the Leap

Related Subjects

• Asian History

Series

• Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

About the Author

Roderick MacFarquhar, a former British Member of Parliament, is Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard, chairman of its Government Department, and a research associate of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research.

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