DREAM OF A RED FACTORY. The Legacy of High Stalinism in China

Kaple, Deborah A.

ISBN 10: 0195083156 / ISBN 13: 9780195083156

Published by Oxford University Press, 1994

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Oxford University Press, 1994. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, xix,163pp. D/j slightly loose and bumped. A good copy. 0195083156/0.5us . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: DREAM OF A RED FACTORY. The Legacy of High Stalinism in China
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195083156
• ISBN 13: 9780195083156
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Drawing on previously unknown primary sources in both Chinese and Russian, Deborah A. Kaple has written a powerful and absorbing account of the model of factory management and organization that the Chinese communists formulated in the 1949-1953 period. She reveals that their "new" management techniques were adapted from Soviet propaganda during the harsh period of Stalin's post-war reconstruction. The idealized Stalinist management system consisted mainly of strict Communist Party control of all aspects of workers' lives, which is the root of such strong Party control over Chinese society today. Dream of a Red Factory is a rare and revealing look at the consolidation rule in China; told through the prism of the development of new "socialist" factories and enterprises. Kaple completely counters the old myth of the "Soviet monolith" in China, and carefully reconstructs how the Chinese communists came to rely on an idealized, propagandistic version of the Soviet model instead.

About the Author

Deborah A. Kaple has a PhD in sociology from Princeton University.