Mao: The Real Story

by Steven I. Levine, Alexander Pantsov, Alexander V. Pantsov

Book Overview

This "comprehensive, judicious, and finely detailed" (Roderick MacFarquhar, The New York Review of Books) biography of Mao Zedong traces how he created a totalitarian government even more destructive and extreme than Stalin's, while transforming China from an impoverished nation to a leading world power.

Mao Zedong was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, the most important in the history of modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451654480
• ISBN13: 9781451654486
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 784 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"