History Supplemental Sources

🇨🇳 Communist China, 5.01 Authoritarian States

đź“– Books

  • The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962―1976 by Frank Dikötter
  • Mao’s Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoendals (seminal work)

To Find

  • The Chairman’s New Clothes: Mao and the Cultural Revolution (withering critique)
  • China’s Cultural Revolution, 1966-69: Not a Dinner Party by Michael Schoendals (contains many primary sources)
  • The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ji Xianlin (first-person account)
  • Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng (first-person account)

đź“° Articles

👤 Historians

  • Roderick MacFarquhar
  • Andrew Walder
  • Frank Dikötter
  • Pierre Ryckman
  • Michael Schoendals
  • Alexander Russo

🎥 Documentaries

  • China’s Cultural Revolution: The Full Story (YouTube)

3.09b Germany, 1918-1945, 5.01 Authoritarian States

đź“– Books

  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer