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Consolidation and Maintenance of Power (MAO) - Coggle Diagram
Consolidation and Maintenance of Power (MAO)
Use of Legal methods
The anti-movements
Three-anti campaign (1951)
Waste, corruption and inefficiency targeted
Threatening party members and labour forces
Five-anti campaign (1952)
Industrial sabotage, tax evasion, bribery, fraud, theft of government property targeted
Targets Bourgeoisie: businessmen, factory owners, management positions, landlords (capitalists)
The Hundred Flowers Campaign
Anti-rightist movement led by Deng Xiaoping to force Maos biggest critics to correct their critic
Reason: deliberate trick by Mao to expose his critics and & root them out which strengthened his position in the party by suppres
Collectivizing
The Registration system (1958)
Family or collective unit of people = Household
Registered Individuals were given labels based on party loyalty. "good", "middle", "bad".
There was an early 1950's version which was not as implemented
Use of Force
The Tibetan uprising of 1959
1950 - PLA enters Tibet
Methods: Public accusations, forced confessions, intimidation
Mass Killings
Quotas on how many people per thousand people should be killed.
Can be seen as a control mechanism over his troop
1950-1953 90'000 people executed in "Campaign to suppress counter-revolutionaries". This campaign was against gangs and triads in Shanghai and Guangzhou
Deliberate tool of state terror
Charismatic Leadership
Cult of personality
Dissemination of Propaganda
Thought reform for educational facilities and industries
Rallies, Songs and slogan advertising success of the revolution
The red book
The Red Guards and the destruction of the "Four Olds" (old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits)
Propaganda posters
Mao swimming in Yangtze river
Impact of foreign policy
The Bandung Conference 1955 -> post Stalins death, Mao was seen as leader of the communist world
Sino-Soviet rift 1958-1976: Mao's alliance with Stalin during Korean War helped strengthen Maos consolidation of power
Chinas relations with the US: Anti-american campaigns during korean war & cultural revolution, finidng of defensive strategy for China "Third Line", China gets seat on Security Council accepted by the UN giving China the power to block Soviet-initiated resolutions
Tense relations between China & India, due to China supporting Pakistan during 1962 India-Pakistan war
Treatment of Opposition
Labour camps (Laogai)
Modelled on Soviet Gulag
25 million people died
Useful to label someone as a "Counter-Revolutionary" and send them away to the Laogai
Possible due to lack of judicial system
Camps used as punishment and re-education
Helpful in eliminating political opposition