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A review of Dan Wang's new book Breakneck
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Industrial Colossus: China vs 1950s America
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The Stalinist Transformation of Russia
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The Life and Times of Xi Zhongxun
The Party’s Interests Come First, Joseph Torigian’s magisterial new biography
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From Reform to Ruin in the USSR
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The Rise and Fall of LGFVs
Part 1: How China's local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) became China's most complex economic challenge.
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The Cold Wind of Historical Nihilism
Lessons from Chinese Communist Party documentaries on the fall of the Soviet Union
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Groping the Elephant of Common Prosperity
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