{"title":"Alessandro Russo","description":"Alessandro Russo has taught sociology at the University of Bologna and has been visiting professor at the University of Washington and at Qinghua University.","products":[{"product_id":"cultural-revolution-and-revolutionary-culture-paperback","title":"Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, Alessandro Russo presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of communism. Russo explores four critical phases of the Cultural Revolution, each with its own reworking of communist political subjectivity: the historical-theatrical \"prologue\" of 1965; Mao's attempts to shape the Cultural Revolution in 1965 and 1966; the movements and organizing between 1966 and 1968 and the factional divides that ended them; and the mass study campaigns from 1973 to 1976 and the unfinished attempt to evaluate the inadequacies of the political decade that brought the Revolution to a close. Among other topics, Russo shows how the dispute around the play \u003ci\u003eHai Rui Dismissed from Office\u003c\/i\u003e was not the result of a Maoist conspiracy, but rather a series of intense and unresolved political and intellectual controversies. He also examines the Shanghai January Storm and the problematic foundation of the short-lived Shanghai Commune. By exploring these and other political-cultural moments of Chinese confrontations with communist principles, Russo overturns conventional wisdom about the Cultural Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367740080351,"sku":"9781478009528","price":48.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/sBqw4KOIeX9781478009528.webp?v=1789113408"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/alessandro-russo.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}