* 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 Yenan heritage: 1935–1945

** 7. The United Front

** 8. The New Democratic Revolution

** 9. Mao and the Dialectic

** 10. Guerilla Warfare

** 11. Rectification and Liberation: 1942–1949

* III. THE CCP IN STATE POWER

** 12. Development and Bureaucratization: 1950–1956

** 13. The Crisis of De-Stalinization

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

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

** 16. The Great Famine

** 17. The Sino-Soviet Split in Theory and Practice: 1960–1963

** 18. An Explosion Waiting to Happen

* IV. THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION

** 19. Revolution Inaugurated: 1965–1966

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

** 21. Dual Power in Shanghai: January 1967

** 22. The First Thermidor

** 23. The “Wuhan Incident” and Armed Struggle: 1967

** 24. Whither China? and the Ultra-Left

** 25. The Shanghai Textbook and Capitalist Ideology

** 26. Twilight of Possibility: 1976

* V. CONCLUSIONS

** 27. Was China State Capitalist?

** 28. Where Did Maoism Come From?

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

* FURTHER READING