Outsourcing the Inquisition: ‘Mass Dictatorship’ in China’s Cultural Revolution

This paper looks at an important yet little known component of what Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong designated the ‘dictatorship of the masses’ - the outsourcing by the supreme state leadership of selected surveillance, inquisitorial and other violent tasks to what in a different politic...

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Veröffentlicht: Taylor & Francis 2008
In: Totalitarian movements and political religions
Jahr: 2008, Band: 9, Heft: 1, Seiten: 3-19
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