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How did Mao become leader of the Chinese Communist party? (Conditions…
How did Mao become leader of the Chinese Communist party?
Conditions
Military
'Violence was the only way to change China'
Had the Red Army - 12,000 men
Was poorly equipped
Jing failed to defeat the Red Army
The Long March
5,000 of the original 100,000 survived
Political
Became a marxist whilst studying
He met with communist thinkers
Helped organise the 04/05/1919 strikes
Was a GMD political organiser in Shanghai
1924 - Elected to Central Committee of the CCP and GMD
He became CCP secretary
Social
Set up the Jiangxi province in 1929
Poorer peasants were encouraged to kill their richer peasant neighbours and landlords
Thos ewho didn't agree with Mao were purged
New Yan'an Soviet
Campaigns to improve literacy
Peasants participated in 'revolutionary committees'
Men and women were forced to confess to crimes they committed
There were regular 'self-criticism' sessions
Economic
Army was poorly equipped
There were peasants
Methods
Ideology & propaganda
The Yan'an Soviet
Campaigns undertaken
People knew he was a good leader
He made Yan'an Soviet seem like a safeand friendly place
Coercion
People were forced to confess their crimes
People were publicly stripped of poessessions or posts
No connections with the outside world
Leadership
'All power grows out of the barrel of a gun'
He had helped people before hand to get what they wanted
He was a good organiser
He built up a well-disciplined and reliable force
Mao knew how told solve issues