Publisher's Synopsis
What was the class composition and class nature of the Chinese Communist Party when it took power in 1949? What forces pushed the Mao regime to take measures which were objectively socialist and to establish the Chinese workers' state? The Chinese Revolution was a practical test of both Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution and Mao's theory of uninterrupted revolution by stages. Which theory matched reality? The degeneration of the Chinese People's Republic has confirmed that without a political revolution, a Stalinist regime will inevitably return to capitalism, but how did that process unfold?
