From Enlightenment Ideals to
Socialist Realities
YINGHONG CHENG
C
REATING
THE
“N
EW
M
AN
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Creating the “New Man”: From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities
By Yinghong Cheng
Creating the “New Man”
From Enlightenment Ideals
to Socialist Realities
Yinghong Cheng
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Cheng, Yinghong.
Creating the new man : from enlightenment ideals to
socialist realities / Yinghong Cheng.
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(Perspectives on the global past)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8248-3074-8 (hard cover : alk. paper)
1. Communism and society. 2. Human behavior.
3. Political psychology. I. Title.
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