Question
What if there was a similar resistance in China as there was in Russia to the idea of collectivization?
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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
-After he fled, he began to rebuild the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
-Mao then build the party using peasantry (There were no urban workers to deal with)
-Chiang fought hard to rid the CCP from their stronghold even as the Japanese began to invade Manchuria
-The CCP fought using gorilla warfare
-Mao then build the party using peasantry (There were no urban workers to deal with)
-Chiang fought hard to rid the CCP from their stronghold even as the Japanese began to invade Manchuria
-The CCP fought using gorilla 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)
•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)
- believed they're chosen by gods
- lenin's model
- 5 year plan (stalin)
- coal, steel, iron
- try to get them industrailized
- creation APC (collectiviazation - stalin's idea. collecting smaller farms)
- Kulaks were against this in Russia and there wasn't this kind of resistence in China
Summary
Mao was another very influential leader. He started the "red army" and started rebuilding the CCP.