Focuses on the complex relationship between these two men as part of the development of modern China - Communist takeover - Mass famine - Great Leap Forward - Cultural Revolution - Third Line - Jiang Qing - Gang of Four - Tiananmen Square.
Harrison Evans Salisbury Livres
Harrison E. Salisbury fut un reporter et rédacteur distingué dont la carrière au New York Times a couvert des décennies d'événements mondiaux majeurs. Ses débuts dans le journalisme ont jeté les bases de ses reportages ultérieurs et percutants. Salisbury est particulièrement célèbre pour sa couverture perspicace de l'Union soviétique durant les années formatrices de la Guerre Froide, une ère qu'il a traversée avec une observation aiguë. Son dévouement à relater des paysages géopolitiques complexes s'est étendu à une vaste couverture de l'Asie, y compris la guerre du Vietnam et les dynamiques évolutives de la Chine.
The destruction of the Czars which brought about the reign of revolutions from 1905–1917 in Russia looms as the crucial political event of the twentieth century. In little more than a decade the Romanov dynasty was toppled, and its time-honored institutions repudiated. How did it happen? How could Nicholas and Alexandra, the nobility, middle class anarchists—even Lenin himself—not foresee the catastrophic changes that were shaking the empire? Why could nothing be done? And why were the efforts so ineffectual? Black Night, White Snow captures the rich drama of this whole period. With the artistry of a Balzac, Harrison Salisbury exposes the strata of Russian society, with its decedents, prophetic poets, religious fanatics, and newly liberated serfs. From archival sources within the Soviet Union, interviews, and his personal photography collection, he recreates the story as it happened. Hard data on Russia's economy, a first-hand knowledge of the county, and a historian's gift of compression are combined in a fast-paced narrative that reads with the ease of a good novel and the urgency of a newspaper headline.
