The Chinese Communist Party In Power, 19491976

Jacques Guillermaz, Anne Destenay

Prologue -- Preface -- Foreword to the French Edition -- Translator's Note -- New Democracy in China 1949-1953 -- China in 1949 -- Political and Administrative Reconstruction: The Ideological Training of the Population— The First Mass Campaigns -- The Restoration of the Economy -- Social Changes: The Marriage Law of May 1, 1950 -- Cultural Changes -- Foreign Relations: The Korean War -- The First Five-Year Plan 1953 - 1957 -- The Targets of the First Five-Year Plan and Soviet Economic Aid -- The Transformation of Economic Structures -- The First Open Rifts: The Kao Kang — Jao Shu-shih Affair, the Hu Feng Affair, the Dream of the Red Chamber Affair -- The 1954 State Constitution and Internal Administration:The New Party Statutes (1956) and Relations Between Party and State -- The Eighth Party Congress and China in 1956 -- The Hundred Flowers and Antirightist Movements of 1956-1957 -- Cultural Policies During the First Five-Year Plan -- The New Military Institutions -- Foreign Policy 1953 - 1957 (1): The Geneva and Bandung Conferences -- Foreign Policy 1953 - 1957 (2): Sino-Soviet Relations -- The Chinese Road to Socialism 1958 - 1962 -- The Search for a Chinese Road to Socialism -- The Great Leap Forward -- Rural People's Communes and Urban Communes 1958 -- The Modification of the People's Communes: The Failure of the Great Leap Forward -- Evolution of Internal Affairs 1958 - 1962 -- Foreign Policy 1958-1966 (1): General Development, Indian Subcontinent, Black Africa, Near East and Arab States, Latin America -- Foreign Policy 1958-1966 (2): Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia -- Foreign Policy 1958- 1966 (3): United States, Western Europe, International Organizations, Disarmament -- Foreign Policy 1958 - 1966 (4): The Socialist Bloc -- The Socialist Education Movement and the Cultural Revolution and Its Aftermath 1962-1976 -- The Tenth Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee and the Reappearance of Class Struggle -- The Socialist Education Movement -- "The Tocsin Sounds the Cultural Revolution" -- "Open Fire at the Black Line": From Wu Han to Teng T'o and The Fall of P'eng Chen -- "Sweep Away All Monsters!" -- The Return of the Great Helmsman and the Eleventh Plenum Of the Eighth Central Committee -- The Red Guards Versus the Top Party Apparatus (August-November 1966) -- The "Hidden Turning" of the Cultural Revolution: From the Slide Toward Anarchy to the "Triple Alliance" and the Revolutionary Committees (November 1966 - February 1967) -- The Cultural Revolution in a Blind Alley (February -June 1967) -- The Crisis of the Summer of 1967 -- Toward an Easing of the Situation -- The Multiplication of Revolutionary Committees and the Twelfth Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee (January -November 1968) -- The Ninth Congress and the Renewal of Party and State Structures (1969 -1971) -- The Tenth Congress and the Internal Political Situation; The Fourth National People's Congress -- The Economy 1962 -1976 -- Education and Culture, the Press, and Religion 1962 -1976 -- Military Policy 1962 -1976 -- Foreign Policy 1966 -1976 (1): General Development -- Foreign Policy 1966 -1976 (2): Indian Subcontinent, Arab States, Africa, Latin America -- Foreign Policy 1966 -1976 (3): Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia -- Foreign Policy 1966 -1976 (4): United States, Western Europe, International Organizations, Disarmament -- Foreign Policy 1966 -1976 (5): The Socialist Bloc -- Conclusion