How Did Mao Zedong Contribute To The Rise Of Communism

Q8. Mao Zedong was the Communists party leader in China during the time of the civil war between the Nationalists and Communists. Mao Zedong embraced the idea of Marxist socialism, communism, from a young age. Mao realized the potential within the Chinese peasants and believed he would be able to lead them in a revolt in hope to spread the political idea of Communism throughout all of China. Unfortunately, Mao and the Communists faced the major threat of Jiang Jieshi and his political party of Nationalism. These battle between these two and their different political parties would lead to a time consuming Civil War within China. Although the Nationalists had an overwhelming majority of troops that outnumbered the Communist troops excessively, the Communists still managed to win over the Nationalists. The Chinese would begin to expand under the Communists government, along with this expansion came transformation, especially in China. Eventually, this would lead to Mao’s Five-Year Plan called, “The Great Leap Forward”. Unbeknownst to Mao, his Five-Year Plan would end up causing more harm rather than good.
At the time, eighty percent of the Chinese population had lived in rural areas; yet, none had owned farms. In fact, ten percent of the rural population had owned seventy percent of the farmland. Under the Agrarian Reform Law, Mao killed millions of landlords who resisted upon giving up their land. Soon thereafter, Mao forced peasants to join collective farms. Simultaneously, Mao began taking over privately owned businesses and so forth. Meanwhile, he created a five-year plan which would set production high for industry. Due to the five-year plan, Chinese coal, cement, steel, and electricity output had majorly increased compared to past