Two RevolutionsA study of the Chinese Communist Partys revolutionary enterprise in northern Shaanxi during the 1934 45 period, this book argues that the Yanan Way, long celebrated by the Party as the foundation and model for its success, was a product of quite special circumstances that were not replicable in most other parts of China. In late 1943, Mao Zedong hailed the rural cooperative movement in northern Shaanxi as the northwest base areas second revolution,