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Feb 8, 2018 · Mao didn’t order people to their deaths in the same way that Hitler did, so it’s fair to say that Mao’s famine deaths were not genocide—in contrast, arguably, to Stalin’s Holodomor in the Ukraine, the terror-famine described by journalist and historian Anne Applebaum in Red Famine (2017). One can argue that by closing down discussion in 1959, Mao sealed the fate of tens of millions ...
Nov 1, 2021 · Reflecting the author's profound knowledge of the two revolutionary transformations, their horrors, and their human costs, this rich comparative study builds on scholarship concerning the rise to power of the Chinese communists and Mao's regime and overturns some of its cornerstones. First, Lucien Bianco in Stalin and Mao stresses the Soviet pedigree of Mao's agrarian policies. (Indeed ...
A Review of Stalin and Mao by Lucien Bianco Chang-tai Hung Stalin and Mao: A Comparison of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, by Lucien Bianco, translated by Krystyna Horko. Hong Kong: Chinese Univer-sity Press, 2018. 448 pp. US$65.00 (Hardcover). ISBN: 9789882370654. Comparing major revolutions in the modern era is a daunting scholarly
This book presents a global comparison of the Russian and Chinese revolutions. Numerous studies compare—or more frequently oppose—a given aspect of the two revolutions, but Lucien Bianco’s work stands out for providing an overall view and a synthesis. The author analyzes the nature of the two revolutions, their different origins and ...
That said, Bianco recognises two differences: Mao was much more given to the ideals of equality and rural revolution; and Mao was more of an ideological and distant ruler, while Stalin was a hands-on helmsman. 7Chapters 4 and 5 provide a core for the argument in the book: the first deals with “The Peasants,” the second with “The Famines.”.
- Igor Iwo Chabrowski
- 2018
As Stalin and Mao were responsible for the deaths of more of their own people than the average tyrant, the study first compares their cruelty and argues that Mao was much less cruel and, second, much less efficient and prone to pursue mutually contradictory aims. Third, he proved more faithful to revolutionary ideals. Two periods during their ...
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the hands of Stalin and Mao. 2 It is worth noting that the English translation published by the Chinese University Press differs in minor respects from the French original. The title La récidive (“the recurrence” or “the repeat offence,” as discussed by S. A. Smith,1 was rendered as Stalin and Mao, a title that downplays Bianco’s ...
