| Dream of a Red Factory: The Legacy of High Stalinism in China Contributor(s): Kaple, Deborah A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195083156 ISBN-13: 9780195083156 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $212.85 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1994 Annotation: Drawing on previously unknown primary sources in both Chinese and Russian, Deborah A. Kaple has written a powerful and absorbing account of the model of factory management and organization that the Chinese communists formulated in the 1949-1953 period. She reveals that their "new" management techniques were adapted from Soviet propaganda during the harsh period of Stalin's post-war reconstruction. The idealized Stalinist management system consisted mainly of strict Communist Party control of all aspects of workers' lives, which is the root of such strong Party control over Chinese society today. Dream of a Red Factory is a rare and revealing look at the consolidation rule in China; told through the prism of the development of new "socialist" factories and enterprises. Kaple completely counters the old myth of the "Soviet monolith" in China, and carefully reconstructs how the Chinese communists came to rely on an idealized, propagandistic version of the Soviet model instead. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industrial Management - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - History | Asia - China |
| Dewey: 658.009 |
| LCCN: 92045579 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.32" W x 9.26" (0.99 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
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| Publisher Description: Drawing on previously unknown primary sources in both Chinese and Russian, Deborah A. Kaple has written a powerful and absorbing account of the model of factory management and organization that the Chinese communists formulated in the 1949-1953 period. She reveals that their new management techniques were adapted from Soviet propaganda during the harsh period of Stalin's post-war reconstruction. The idealized Stalinist management system consisted mainly of strict Communist Party control of all aspects of workers' lives, which is the root of such strong Party control over Chinese society today. Dream of a Red Factory is a rare and revealing look at the consolidation rule in China; told through the prism of the development of new socialist factories and enterprises. Kaple completely counters the old myth of the Soviet monolith in China, and carefully reconstructs how the Chinese communists came to rely on an idealized, propagandistic version of the Soviet model instead. |