Mrs deng xiaoping biography review
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Review of Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life. By Alexander Pantsov with Steven Levine. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015.
216 Journal of Contemporary History 54(1) Nazis’ own conception of ‘Volk’ and ‘Führer’.
It is rather irritating to see ‘Volk’ used in German as a descriptive historical category in the editors’ introduction (‘the Volk expressed themselves collectively in public opposition to a Nazi Party policy’ (p. 6)).
The book portrays the Chinese leader and his colleagues as intelligent, industrious and brutal men (we could not find any women Chinese leaders in the book).
There was no homogeneous ‘Volk’ in Germany under National Socialism and protests amply demonstrate this. Taking into account further examples of protest, including those that were not successful, would surely deepen our understanding of National Socialist rule and its social underpinnings.
The title of the volume is therefore somewhat misleading: the perspective opened up by the analytical concept of ‘Volksgemeinschaft’ is largely absent. Nevertheless, the volume’s merit lies not only in the empirical clarification of the Rosenstraße controversy, but