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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: conscience of the Party
    sub title: Hu Yaobang, China's communist reformer
  name:
    name part: Suettinger, Robert
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 479 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "When Hu Yaobang died in April 1989, throngs of mourners converged on the Martyrs' Monument in Tiananmen Square to pay their respects. Following Hu's 1987 ouster by party elders, Chinese propaganda officials had sought to tarnish his reputation and dim his memory, yet his death galvanized the nascent pro-democracy student movement, setting off the dramatic demonstrations that culminated in the Tiananmen massacre. The Conscience of the Party is the comprehensive, authoritative biography of the Chinese Communist Party's most avid reformer and its general secretary for a key stretch of the 1980s. A supremely intelligent leader with an exceptional populist touch, Hu Yaobang was tapped early by Mao Zedong as a capable party hand. But Hu's principled ideas made him powerful enemies, and during the Cultural Revolution he was purged, brutally beaten, and consigned to forced labor. After Mao's death, Hu rose again as an ally of Deng Xiaoping, eventually securing the party's top position. In that role, he pioneered many of the economic reforms subsequently attributed to Deng. But Hu also pursued political reforms with equal vigor, pushing for more freedom of expression, the end of lifetime tenure for CCP leaders, and the dismantling of Mao's personality cult. Alarmed by Hu's growing popularity and increasingly radical agenda, Deng had him purged again in 1987. Historian and former intelligence analyst Robert L. Suettinger meticulously reconstructs Hu's life, providing the kind of eye-opening account that remains impossible in China under state censorship. Hu Yaobang, a decent man operating in a system that did not always reward decency, suffered for his principles but inspired millions in the process"--Publisher website.
  table of contents: Born to the Revolution -- Basking in the Light of Mao Zedong -- Winning the War, Securing Power -- Growing Doubts -- Into the Maelstrom -- Cultural Revolution Catastrophe -- Bringing Order out of Chaos -- The Making of a Reformer -- Deng's Wrath and Hu's Fall -- Hu Yaobang and the Fate of Reform.
  note: Robert L. Suettinger.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hu, Yaobang
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Zhongguo gong chan dang
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1976-2002
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1949-1976
  classification: DS779.26 .S83 2024
  classification: 320.95109/04
  identifier: 9780674272804
  identifier: 0674272803
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240412
    record change date: 20250318215129.2
    record identifier: in00005518137
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng