The first salvos -- The seige of Beijing -- Confusion on campuses -- The fifty days -- Mao's new successor -- The red guards -- Red terror -- Confusion nationwide -- Shanghai's "January Storm" -- Seizing power -- The last standof the old guard -- The Wuhan incident -- The May 16 conspiracy -- The end of the red guards -- Cleanings the class ranks -- Dispatching Lie Shaoqi -- The congress of victors -- War scares -- The defection and death of Lin Biao -- Mao becalmed -- Zhou under pressure -- Deng Xiaoping takes over -- The gang of four emerges -- The Tiananmen incident of 1976 -- The last day of chairman Mao.