Deng xiaoping a revolutionary life de pantsov alexander v levine steven i sur abebooksfr isbn 10 019939203x isbn 13 9780199392032 oup usa 2015 couverture rigide. Deng xiaoping joined the chinese communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of maos from the 1930s onward two years after maos death in 1976 deng became the de facto leader of the chinese communist party and the prime architect of chinas post mao reforms abandoning the maoist socio economic policies he had long fervently supported he set in . Deng xiaoping a revolutionary life by alexander v pantsov steven i levine is the biography of arguably the second most important person in modern china paston is a professor of history and holds the edward and mary catherine gerhold chair in the humanities at capital university in columbus ohio he has published numerous scholarly works including fifteen books among them the bolsheviks . Main deng xiaoping a revolutionary life deng xiaoping a revolutionary life alexander v pantsov steven i levine deng xiaoping joined the chinese communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of maos from the 1930s onward two years after maos death in 1976 deng became the de facto leader of the chinese communist party and the prime architect of