Long Live The Victory Of People's War!: In Commemoration Of The 20Th Anniversary Of Victory In The Chinese People's War Of Resistance Against Japan
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. 67pp.
Published in Peking in 1965, Long Live the Victory of People's War! is one of the most significant political-military treatises to emerge from Maoist China — a bold manifesto that argues for the supremacy of revolutionary guerrilla warfare as the inevitable path to global socialist liberation. Written by Lin Piao, then Defence Minister and Mao Zedong's chosen successor, the text commemorates the 20th anniversary of China's victory over Japan and presents a sweeping strategic doctrine contending that the world's rural populations — the so-called countryside — must surround and overwhelm the industrialised urban powers of the West. The work stands as a landmark document of Cold War ideology, crystallising the Maoist theory of protracted people's war and extending it from a domestic military strategy into a universal revolutionary blueprint. Lin Piao's prose is declarative and urgent, wielding Marxist-Leninist rhetoric with the precision of a military order, and the text was widely interpreted in Western capitals as a direct challenge to American global hegemony. Decades on, it remains an indispensable primary source for scholars of Chinese Communist Party history, Cold War geopolitics, and the theory of asymmetric warfare — raising questions about power, legitimacy, and revolution that have never entirely faded.
Author: Lin Piao
Format: Paperback
Published: 1965, Foreign Languages Press
Genre: Military history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. 67pp.
Published in Peking in 1965, Long Live the Victory of People's War! is one of the most significant political-military treatises to emerge from Maoist China — a bold manifesto that argues for the supremacy of revolutionary guerrilla warfare as the inevitable path to global socialist liberation. Written by Lin Piao, then Defence Minister and Mao Zedong's chosen successor, the text commemorates the 20th anniversary of China's victory over Japan and presents a sweeping strategic doctrine contending that the world's rural populations — the so-called countryside — must surround and overwhelm the industrialised urban powers of the West. The work stands as a landmark document of Cold War ideology, crystallising the Maoist theory of protracted people's war and extending it from a domestic military strategy into a universal revolutionary blueprint. Lin Piao's prose is declarative and urgent, wielding Marxist-Leninist rhetoric with the precision of a military order, and the text was widely interpreted in Western capitals as a direct challenge to American global hegemony. Decades on, it remains an indispensable primary source for scholars of Chinese Communist Party history, Cold War geopolitics, and the theory of asymmetric warfare — raising questions about power, legitimacy, and revolution that have never entirely faded.