LIN, Biao.

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Lin Biao tongzhi yulu. (Quotations From Comrade Lin Biao.) Second edition, first printing, of this uncommon pseudo-"Little Red Book" which was not commercially distributed. Compiled in one of the hotspots of the Cultural Revolution, it was designed to establish Lin as China's foremost leader apart from the Chairman himself. Lin's growing power and cult of personality made him a force that Mao would eventually have to reckon with.The first edition of Quotations from Comrade Lin Biao was published in Wuhan in December 1967, only a few months after armed conflict among different Cultural Revolution organisations in the city had come close to descending into a state of civil war. For the organisations involved in the compilation of this work, it demonstrated their loyalty to the leadership in Beijing and courted the support of Lin and the People's Liberation Army. Shortly before the first edition went to press, a high-level document outlining preparations for the Ninth Congress of the Party stressed the need to increase Lin's prestige as Mao's heir-apparent and most ardent follower. This second edition quickly followed a few weeks later to answer this call, and included an additional preface heralding the widespread enthusiasm for the first edition.The present work states that "Comrade Lin Biao has provided the most comprehensive, most correct, most scientific, and most lofty analysis of our most, most beloved leader Chairman Mao and the ever-victorious Mao Zedong Thought... Comr

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