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In China After Mao, award-winning historian Frank Dikoetter explores how the People's Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today. His account is the first to be based on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, from the secret minutes of top party meetings to confidential bank reports.

The Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of "Mao's Great Famine" explores the cult of personality that solidified the power of twentieth century dictators, from the most notorious figures to Ceausescu, Mengistu and Duvalier.

Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward. It lead to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known.