Format:
viii, 351 Seiten.
ISBN:
978-1-4780-0859-0
,
978-1-4780-0952-8
Content:
Afterlives of an "upright official" -- Political and historical dilemmas -- An unresolved controversy -- A probable defeat and revisionism -- Shrinking the cultural super-ego -- Testing organization -- A subjective split in the working class -- Facing a self-defeat -- Intellectual conditions for a political assessment -- Foundations of Deng Xiaoping's strategy
Content:
"In CULTURAL REVOLUTION AND REVOLUTIONARY CULTURE, Alessandro Russo argues that the Cultural Revolution in China should be understood as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of communism itself. Arguing that each political revolution must contend with that which preceded it, Russo contextualizes the Cultural Revolution within two overlapping historical periods: the span of communist ideology itself, beginning with the publication of the Communist Manifesto in 1848, and the political energy of the 1960s, in which a worldwide reconsideration of communism took place. Although the Cultural Revolution ultimately failed in that China eventually embraced capitalism, Russo contends that the Cultural Revolution remains important today, as it provides a resource for articulating an egalitarian politics.
Content:
Examining four different phases of the Cultural Revolution, this book argues that we should view each phase as a confrontation between new political subjectivities imagined through the mass-experimentation of the Revolution, and the frameworks of political culture available to revolutionaries. The book is organized around the four phases Russo identifies in the ten-year span of the Cultural Revolution. Part 1 (chapters 1-3) explores what Russo calls the "historical-theatrical 'prologue' of 1965," and examines the controversy surrounding the historical drama Hai Rui Dismissed from Office, which Sandro interprets as a debate over the nature of historical materialism in understanding histories of Chinese peasant life.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781478012184
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Cultural revolution and revolutionary culture Durham : Duke University Press, 2020
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
