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‘The 100 flowers campaign of 1957 was the most significant of Mao’s…
‘The 100 flowers campaign of 1957 was the most significant of Mao’s campaigns against his political opponents in the years 1949 – 62’ How far do you agree with this statement?
Most significant
It was because intellectuals were lulled into a false sense of security, lost trust
P.Short disagrees: Mao genuinely wanted the intellectuals on his side, despite referring to them as 'the enemy'
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Anti-rightist campaign
300,000-600,000 labelled 'rightists', stripped of job, many sent to laogai
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Not most significant
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3 antis, 5 antis, 1951-52
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While it caused much less destruction, it impacted policy to come, leading to many of the mistakes of GLF