Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
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Introduction by
Ithiel de Sola Pool 9
Acknowledgments 12
Preface 13
Prologue 15
PART I PRECONDITIONS THE PROPHECY 45
1 Conviction and the Bloom of Confusion 46
2 Prophecy and the Potential of Disconfirmation 63
3 Personal Commitment and the Yenan Heritage 76
4 Great Leaps Backward 100
5 Social Support The Initial Surge 111
PART II PROSELYTING SECURING SOCIAL SUPPORT 120
6 The Spawn of Lushan 121
7 Indoctrination of Military and Middle Level Cadres 160
8 Socialist Education and the Proletarian Masses 175
9 Revolutionary Reformation of Bourgeois Bureaucrats 202
10 Catechizing Through the Mass Media 229
PART III POLARIZATION UTOPIA REVISITED 248
11 Polarization 249
12 Epilogue Compromised Maoism 285
Appendices 307
Abbreviations in Notes 319
About the Author 320
