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Nationalists and Communists - Coggle Diagram
Nationalists and Communists
The Communists under Mao
Mao's concept of leadership
Mao grew up as a peasant from Hunan province - intensly patriotic
He witnessed the violence between Republican factions in Hunan - led him to conclude that in order to be a leader + gain success politically or militarily ->
toughest means needed to be used
Helps to explain why he was prepared to do this - 'all power grows out of the barrel of a gun'
Mao's ruthlessness
Mao became attracted to
Marxist
ideas -> believed that China needed social + political revolution in order to
regain its greatness
Mao became one of the founding members of the
CCP
in 1921
Used
FORCE
Tortured Red Army troops in 1930, ordered execution of 4000 who he accused of plotting against him
Believed that China's revolution needed to be a peasant revolution
Friction with USSR - Mao was ignoring the laws of the sequence to Communism - no urban proleteriat ->
incapable
of proletarian revolution
China - urban industrial workers -> accounted for
less than 4%
population
Rural peasants made up 88% -> popular revolution
would have to be the work of the peasantry
Told his supporters it was their task to unleash the potential of the peasantry
Mao's policy towards the peasants
Mao sent out Red Army units from Yanan to take control of neighbouring regions - they would round up landowners, and shoot them, redistributing said land amongst the peasants -> hope that this treatment would persuade locals tosupport the CCP
Previously - imperial + warlord forces had ravaged and plundered, but Mao instructed Red Army to behave differently -> aid and comfort the people
The Sino-Japanese War and the second United Front
Japanese occupied Manchuria in
1931
Used it as a base for extending their control over many other Chinse areas