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Mao's consolidation and maintenance of power - Coggle Diagram
Mao's consolidation and maintenance of power
use of force
censorship
agrarian reform law
by eliminating, executing landlords peasants too a higher role. landlords were forced to admit their mistakes and get beaten up by peasants to death or commited suicide
2-3 million landlords who were guilty were executed
red guards
denounced parents, destroyed many historic and cultural sites, control of media and public transport
targeting of counter-revolutionaires
targeted people who were against the revolution --> some were killed or sent to prison. neighbours, families and friends ratted each other to the CCP.
cultural revolution
young people were ordered to target enemies of the revolution
removing of capitalism
many tortured or beaten to death
reunification campaigns
Military control through PLA
60,000 Tibetans loyal to this system fought against China, but the
PLA took control within six months.
October 1950, the PLA forces entered Tibet, which has a different
racial, cultural and religious identity than the chinese.
CCP sent the PLA to reunify Xinjiang with China that has a large population bordering a Soviet controlled region Mongolia
The Anti Movements
from 3 to 5 anti campaign
Mao declared reactionaries, counterrevolutionaries as enemy of the state.
Thousands of books were burned because they romanticized the feudal time
The Great Terror
There were many prison camps in the country used
to “reform” people through labour. (Modelled the soviet's gulags.)
million people had been sent to a camp, torture and hunger.
90'000 of them were executed
charismatic leadership
cultural revolution
many young people/students admire and worship Mao. Mao can easily ask them to do stuff
cult of Mao
propaganda
cultural revolution 1966
little red book
students and teens and people in their twenties worshiped the mao with chanting slogans from the litte red book
censorship
central people's radio network
Mao found swimming across Yangzi river --> symbolic choice--> nations greates river was regarded as a life force
advertise the success of the revolution
Movement of national transformation
use of legal methods
land reform
peasants organized to into mutual aid teams
100 flower campiagn
Mao allows open criticism towards the party. this led to attacks on the party and leading figures
cus of this rightist were sent to the countrysides for reeducation
household registration system
every individual given class label bad ,middle, good according to their loyalty to the party --> key method enusring conformity
millions of peasants move to urban cities
administrative structure
party secretary
military commander
political commisar
chairman
china on military control
nature, extent and treatment opposition
treatment of opposition with force. see use of force
sucess/failure of foreign policy
The nationalists were still fighting and challenging China from Taiwan
mao wanted to provoke anti-imperialist unrest in brisish colony in hong kong
china lost more than 1 billion dollars after the korean war
anti-american campaigns were intensiified during the korean war