Do Your Own Research: The Mao Era – Catastrophe or Necessity? w/ Rebecca Karl

Podcast: Novara Media · Novara Media

Opublikowano: 2026-10-26

No one is disputed like Mao. Was he a mass murderer, a Communist hero, a charlatan, or a great poet? The saviour of the peasants, or the man who extracted from them all that he could? Mao’s biography is a nest of contradictions. He led the largest revolution in world history, then presided over its largest famine – and even then, life expectancy rose 20 years over the course of his rule. He launched rebellions – against a government he already controlled. He purged his enemies and friends alike. Some 50 years after his death, he remains a central figure in Chinese politics. The Comm...