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

[gregory meyerson <gmeyerson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think robert weil did something for monthly review that's relevant 
here too.



I suspect this halliday book is as reliable as robert conquest.
On Apr 4, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Bob Hopson wrote:

> 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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