This title was first published in 1980:

Marc J. Blecher received his B.S. from Cornell University and an M.A. and Ph.D. (in 1978) from the University of Chicago. He has held research positions at the University of California (Berkeley) Center for Chinese Studies and the University of Chicago Center for Far Eastern Studies and is now an assistant professor of government at Oberlin College. Gordon White received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Oxford, an M.A. from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. (in 1977) from Stanford University. He has taught at Cornell and Australian National University, and he is now a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

A Note on Romanization, Introduction 1. The Unit: Personnel, Structure, and Operations 2. The Nature of General Issues in the Unit 3. The Cultural Revolution: A Narrative Account 4. The Political Process During the Cultural Revolution I : Context and Issues 5. The Political Process During the Cultural Revolution II : Political Behavior 6. The Impact of the Cultural Revolution.