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Born in Tunisia in 1953, Patrick Lescot is the editor-in-chief of the foreign news service Agence France-Presse. He spent several years in China where he reported on Tibet's uprising in Lhasa and the Tiananmen Square events. He lives in Paris.“… a vivid record…” (Yorkshire Evening Post, 15 May 2004)
The Red Empires moves between Paris, Russia and China, giving a highly evocative account of the cultural revolution as Russia and China moved apart in the 1960s.
Chapter 2.
Chapter 3.
Chapter 4.
Chapter 5.
Chapter 6.
Chapter 7.
Chapter 8.
Chapter 9.
Chapter 10.
Chapter 11.
Chapter 12.
Chapter 13.
Chapter 14.
Chapter 15.
Chapter 16.
Chapter 17.
Chapter 18.
Chapter 19.
Chapter 20.
Chapter 21.
Chapter 22.
Chapter 23.
Chapter 24.
Chapter 25.
Epilogue.
Chronology.
Bibliography.
Acknowledgments.
Index.
Li Lisan was an idealistic and principled man and a founder of Chinese Communism. Yet he was also married to a former Russian aristocrat, a marriage that endangered them both when the Russian and Chinese states moved apart. As regimes of fear grew under Stalin and Mao, Li Lisan refused to bend to their commands, a crime for which he suffered many years of imprisonment in Stalin's gulags and ultimately death under his former comrade, Mao. Throughout this time his wife Lisa stood by him and together they resisted all attempts by the state to force them apart. This is the story of their tragedy and that of the countries that they loved.
Li Lisan emerges from Lescot's remarkable account as a complex, dedicated man whose honesty and integrity caused him enormous suffering, which he bore with extraordinary determination. Lescot sets his tale against vivid descriptions of China and Russia in some of the most terrible and momentous phases of the history of the twentieth century.