From the author of Letters of Transit, Reading the Rails, and Appalachia Spring comes this delightful account of a journey across the Peoples Republic of China, in search of the men who shaped its modern history. Along the way Matthew Stevenson visits Maos cave house in Yenan, where Chiang was kidnapped ...
This work provides an in-depth analysis of the institutional development and behaviour of political parties and of the emerging party system in Russia, 1990-1996.