Dragon and the Bear: Inside China and Russia Today (Abacus Books)
by Philip Short
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Comparison of political systems and government policies in China since Mao and in post-Stalin USSR - describes attitudes to political power, revolutionary cultural change, modernization of living conditions, the evolution of communism and value systems in both countries, and the effects on international relations. References.Tags
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Philip Short was for thirty years a foreign correspondent for the BBC, based in Washington, Moscow, Paris, Tokyo and Beijing. He lived and worked in China in the 1970s and 1980s, and has returned regularly to the country ever since. He is the author of acclaimed biographies of Franois Mitterrand (4 Study in Ambiguity, 2013) and Pol Pot (History of show more a Nightmare, 2004). show less
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