Deng at a Houston rodeo during a tour of the United States in 1979.Credit...Brent Frerck from Bettmann/Corbis Two mighty rhetorical questions conclude this enormous biography of Deng Xiaoping (1904-97): “Did any other leader in the 20th century do more to improve the lives of so many? Did any other 20th-century leader have such a large and lasting influence on world history?” The answers emerge fr
The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor. Allen Lane, 302 pp., £25, June 2010, 978 1 84614 173 7Show More Khrushchev’s speech in 1956 denouncing Stalin’s crimes was a political act from which, as his biographer William Taubman put it, ‘the Soviet regime never fully recovered, and neither did he.’ Although it was plainly opportunistic, there was just as plainly mo
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