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Mao's Permanent Revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Allan Spitz
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The aspect of China's current “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” that has provoked, perhaps, the greatest amount of speculation and controversy has been that of the 1966 purges. The purge is not new to totalitarianism in general, or to the Chinese brand of communism in particular. On the contrary, it has always been used in totalitarian states as a device by which leadership might strengthen itself in the face of internal dissent or new tasks.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , October 1968 , pp. 440 - 454
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1968

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