By any reckoning Mao Tse-tung must be regarded as one of the greatest and most remarkable statesmen of modern times. As a poet of distinction, as a political philosopher of major importance, and as a strategist whose 3000-mile trek across China has become a legend, Mao has devoted his life to China and the Chinese peasants. Indeed the Chinese People's Republic has shaped a whole pattern of revolution for poor peasant societies. In this new biography Stuart Schram sifts fact from fiction in the long story of Mao's struggle to free the greatness of China and to give a new meaning of Marxism.
About the Author
Stuart R. Schram was born in Minnesota, U.S.A in 1924. He took his B.A. at the University of Minnesota in 1944, followed by a Ph.D. in political sciences at Columbia University in 1954. Since then, he has carried out research at the Centre d'études Relations Internationales of the Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris. With Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, he was responsible for the Chinese section of the Centre. In his research he was chiefly interest at the role of ideology in politics, especially in Communist countries, and in the history of Leninist theories together with their application by the Communist movement in Asia.