... similar view regarding the changing nature of evidence on Mao's personality, and the following role reversal of the key figures of the period: We now know, through a collection of memoirs, notes and the like, that Mao was a very, very disturbed person psychologically. He was really a monster. Through the select release of statistics and evidence regarding this period, the position of ... any great influence. Bibliography Barmae, Geremie R, Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader. M.E. Sharpe, 1996 Becker, Jasper, Hungry Ghosts-Mao's Secret Famine. The Free Press, 1996 Becke...

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... of idealism (from the early 1900s through to the late 1930s) was motivated by the desire to prevent war. However, many idealists were skeptical that laissez faire economic principles, like free trade, would deliver peace. Idealists, like J. A. Hobson, argued that imperialism was becoming the primary cause of conflict in international politics. For Hobson, imperialism resulted from underconsumption within developed capitalist societies ... 1976: 97). Unlike realists however, liberal institutionalists believe that the decline of state autonomy is not necessarily regrettable, rather, they ...

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