... over time? This essay was originally to deal with debates regarding Soviet Russian history. This sphere of interest became more specific and eventually led to a study of inconsistencies regarding historical justifications of Khrushchev's dismissal of war hero Marshall Zhukov. However, while a variety of sources were available regarding his Western counterparts such as Montgomery and Eisenhower, copies of books ... a struggle against revisionism, and a triumph of Revolutionary progress over Political Reactionaries . His writings on the Cultural Revolution are published amidst Western chall...

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... sense what factors were on his side, rather than any specific "genius- qualities. Like George Washington in the American colonies or General Giap in Vietnam, Mao was smart because he recognized factors were in his favor. He understood that the overall conditions of China lent themselves to a revolution. ... at the hands of the Nationalist Army, as described by Wu Tien-Wei (1976), could lead a reader to wonder if the revolution was simply a historical accident. In the final analysis, though, that would be too simplistic. But it is worth noting the "small causes- of a revolution. Esherick ...

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