Books similar to "Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend" but for other leaders? Mao in particular.
Books similar to "Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend" but for other leaders? Mao in particular.
I just finished 'Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend' by Domenico Losurdo. I want a book exactly like that but for Mao Zedong. This quote from the book explains what I'm looking for better than I can:
"The omission of history, and especially the history of colonialism and war, is a constant in the mythology determined to transform all communist and anti-colonialist leaders into Hitler’s twin monsters."
So I want a book that cuts through the western mythology painting Mao as a big evil dictator and puts him back into the proper historical context. I want to know how and why he did what he did.