mao zedong
- After he fled he began to rebuild the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
-Mao built party on the peasantry (no urban workers to deal with)
-Chiang fought hard to rid the CCP from their stronghold even as the Japanese began to invade Manchuria
-CCP fought guerrilla warfare
-Mao built party on the peasantry (no urban workers to deal with)
-Chiang fought hard to rid the CCP from their stronghold even as the Japanese began to invade Manchuria
-CCP fought guerrilla warfare
mao's china, 1949-1958
- Tradition in China gave new rulers "Mandate from Heaven"
-Democratic Centralism - Total obedience to the leader (Leninist model)
-The First Plan (5 year plan) - Some aid from USSR, Emphasis on heavy industry
-Like Russia there was a form of collectivization called APC's (Agricultural Producer Co-Operatives)
-Democratic Centralism - Total obedience to the leader (Leninist model)
-The First Plan (5 year plan) - Some aid from USSR, Emphasis on heavy industry
-Like Russia there was a form of collectivization called APC's (Agricultural Producer Co-Operatives)
The Great leap forward 19580-1962
-Mao's new economic plan after five year plans criticized
-China organized into 28,000 communes
-Main factors:
-Great industrial and scientific activity
-Muscle power used to build, dams, and irrigation
-Small communal factories
-Famine a huge problem ( 30,000,000 deaths )
-China organized into 28,000 communes
-Main factors:
-Great industrial and scientific activity
-Muscle power used to build, dams, and irrigation
-Small communal factories
-Famine a huge problem ( 30,000,000 deaths )