Melvyn C. Goldstein is John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and Codirector of the Center for Research on Tibet at Case Western Reserve University, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Read this after my recent trip to Tibet. Dalai Lama was a progressive doomed to fall for Mao's charisma and leftist rhetoric, as shown by this extremely well-researched volume on 1951-1955.