*** A Note

** Introduction

** I. Prologue: The First Chinese Revolution

*** 1. The Emergence of Modern China

*** 2. The Comintern: State Capitalist Foreign Policy

*** 3. The Disaster of 1927

*** 4. The Turn to the Countryside

** II. People’s War From the Countryside

*** 5. The Chinese Soviet Republic and the Long March: 1931–1935

*** 6. The Yan’an heritage: 1935–1945

*** 7. The United Front

*** 8. The New Democratic Revolution

*** 9. Mao and the Dialectic

*** 10. Liberation: 1946–1949

** III. The CCP in State Power

*** 11. Development and Bureaucratization: 1950–1956

*** 12. The Crisis of De-Stalinization

*** 13. The Hundred Flowers Campaign: 1956–1957

*** 14. The Great Leap Forward: 1958–1962

*** 15. The Great Famine

*** 16. The Sino-Soviet Split and the Critique of Stalinism: 1960–1963

*** 17. An Explosion Waiting to Happen

** IV. The Cultural Revolution

*** 18. Revolution Inaugurated: 1965–1966

*** 19. Red Guards in Beijing: 1966–1967

*** 20. Dual Power in Shanghai: January 1967

*** 21. The First Thermidor: February 1967

*** 22. The “Wuhan incident” and Armed Struggle: 1967

*** 23. “Whither China?” and the Ultra-Left: 1968

*** 24. The Shanghai Textbook and Socialist Transition: 1975

*** 25. Twilight of Possibility

** Conclusion

*** 26. Where Did Maoism Come From?

*** 27. What Is Useful in Mao’s Politics Today?

** Further Reading

*** General Histories

*** Particular Histories

*** Theoretical and Philosophical

*** Mao Texts

*** CCP Texts