Alternate Title
Category
Archival Material
Institution
University of Freiburg
Access
open access
URL
https://www.maoistlegacy.de/
Description
The Maoist Legacy Database (MLD), a project led by Daniel Leese at the University of Freiburg with European Research Council support, is a digital archive of several thousand original documents, handbooks, and personal dossiers from the 1950s through the 1980s, focused primarily on the post-Maoist period when tens of millions of “unjust cases” were revised under Hua Guofeng, Deng Xiaoping, and Hu Yaobang. The collection ranks among the most comprehensive worldwide on communist-era transitional justice and the politics of historical reckoning. Over 5,000 documents have been annotated and digitized; due to privacy laws, the majority of individual case files remain unavailable in digital format. Free account registration is required for access.
Source List
ACLS Open Database Resource Guide
Tags
Early PRC (1949–1966) Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) Contemporary (post-1978) Historical archive Biography Law
Last Modified
5/16/2026 7:44pm