Understanding how leaders make foreign policy and national security decisions is of paramount importance for the policy community and academia. Yet on their own, neither rational nor cognitive schools of decision-making analysis offer totally convincing results, and in any case, rigorous...

Introduction : the story of Mao's revolution -- Arriving : work teams -- Organizing : the search for bitterness -- Dividing : creating peasants and landlords -- Struggling : inside the furnace of revolution -- Turning : the promise of fanshen -- Conclusion : agrarian revolution in the rearview...

The historical background and contemporary setting -- Mao, Stalin, and transforming China's economy: 1948-52 -- Stalin's short course and Mao's socialist economic transformation of China in the early 1950s -- Mao's formulation of the general line for socialist transition: October 1952-September...