The first Tiananmen incident revisited: elite politics and crisis management at the end of the Maoist era.

From: Pacific Affairs | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: Sun, Warren; Teiwes, Frederick C. | Copyright information 
 
  Crushing the Tiananmen incident was personally grasped by the 
  Chairman.... Initially the Beijing militia refrained from striking 
  back, nor did they engage in cursing back [at the rioters].... [But 
  when the rioters] used counterrevolutionary violent force, we then 
  wanted to use revolutionary violent force to deal with them. This is a 
  basic Marxist-Leninist principle. Later [we] took up clubs [and not 
  tanks and machine guns--authors' comment], the Center [Mao] clearly ...

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