Pantsov, Alexander, 1955-

Deng Xiaoping : A Revolutionary Life / Deng Xiaoping, a revolutionary life Alexander V. Pantsov, with Steven I. Levine. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015] - xx, 610 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-580) and index.

The Bolshevik -- Born in the Year of the Dragon -- From Paris to Moscow: the lessons of Bolshevism -- From Xian to Shanghai -- The Guangxi experiment -- The Maoist -- "The spirit of five fearlessness" -- Master of the Taihang Mountains -- At the forefront of the new democratic revolution -- Chief of the Southwest Region -- The Beijing Hippodrome -- "Critique of the cult of personality" and its consequences -- "A great growing force" -- Being and consciousness -- "Yellow cat, black cat" -- "No. 2 capitalist roader" -- Arrest and exile -- The pragmatist -- "Soft as cotton, sharp as a needle" -- New trials -- Practice as the criterion of truth -- The cardinal principles -- "Let some families get rich first" -- One country, two systems -- Reforms and democracy -- The Tiananmen tragedy -- A retired patriarch.

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Deng, Xiaoping, 1904-1997.


Heads of state--China--Biography.
Jefes de Estado--China--BiografĂ­a.

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