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The Rise of Mao Tse-Tung

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Robert C. North
Robert C. North
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Stanford University
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The Preponderance of historical evidence now available provides a sound underpinning for the general thesis that throughout his struggle for power, Mao Tse-tung has always worked within a Marxist-Leninist framework; that he, like other Communist leaders before him, has not hesitated to improvise within that framework; and that the success of his greatest improvisation—the use of Chinese peasants as the main force in the revolutionary struggle—is actually a negation of fundamental Marxist-Leninist tenets. This analysis has been thoroughly and ably developed by Benjamin Schwartz and needs no elaboration.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , February 1952 , pp. 137 - 145
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952

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