Desk
Book notes. What each book claims, and the entries it bears on.
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A history of the famine that followed the Great Leap Forward, built from provincial archives and interviews. It puts the death toll near 36 million.
The figure is the author's estimate, not a census. Other estimates are higher and lower. The Great Leap Forward entry prints the range.
An archive-based history of the famine of the Great Leap Forward. It argues that at least 45 million people died, and that policy, not weather alone, produced the famine.
The figure is at the upper end of published estimates. Historians who think it too high still place the deaths in the tens of millions.
A dialogue on justice in the city and in the soul, with Socrates as the main speaker. It describes a city ruled by philosopher-guardians, with private property and the private family abolished for that class, and contains the philosopher-king and what the text calls a noble lie.
A text, not a record of a state that existed. The full text is not hosted here.
