Re: [Marxism] Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

[Bob Hopson <bobhpsn@xxxxxxxxx>]

My favorite literary critic, John Dolan, has a good review of this book here:
 http://www.exile.ru/2005-July-01/book_review
 
 It seems to me that any writer or historian who wants a quick career boost in 
America or Britain can always prosper by upping the atrocity count of Stalin or 
Mao, or otherwise pissing on the history of socialism.  "What?  Only 20 million 
dead during Soviet collectivization?  I'll see your 20 million and raise it 40 
million for the Cultural Revolution!"
 
 Scientists estimate that sometime in the 22nd century, the earth will collapse 
into a black hole from the mass of all the bodies of the victims of 20th 
century revolutions, as counted by current and future historians and hack 
writers.

Sukla Sen <suklasenp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [Source: ]

Mao: The Unknown Story (Paperback)
by Jung Chang (Author), Jon Halliday (Author)

 

 
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