Notes on Mao's Chinese Revolution
MAO EVALUATION – 1920s-1949: RESISTER?
OPPRESSION METHODS OF RESISTANCE SUCCESS/FAILURE
ECONOMIC:
Land based – peasants didn't own land – worked (exploited?) land for landlords
Peasants heavily taxed – if you couldn't pay tax you could be imprisoned – you could be beaten, sold into slavery etc
Peasants starve – massive famines frequent
Cities – massive inequality – between business/factory owners and their workers
National Party policies supported business owners and middle class at the expense of the peasants.
Marxism/communism/Maoism
Maoism until 1949 is able to be applied to the areas that the communists control
Communists are able to gain increasing control - massive support to their economic philosophies
POLITICAL:
• When Mao was leading the Autumn Harvest Uprising in Hunan, the KMT (Kuomintang) sent more than 1 million soldiers against him
• 1931-34 Mao establishes the Soviet Republic of China in the mountains of Jiangxi. Red Terror occurs where communists torture and murder thousands of local people.
• 1932: Red Guard have 45 000 which will be used in the future for oppression during the Cultural Revolution
• October 16, 1934 - October 19, 1935 - The Long March, communist escape 8 000 miles to the north and west
• Mao advocates "harsher measures" against non-cooperative peasants. (1941)
• 1942: Mao launches "Rectification of Conduct" Campaign to purge other CPC leaders
• Jan 21, 1949: KMT suffer huge loss against Mao's Red Guards.
• Mass executions landlords and other rightists, more than 1 million likely killed.
• Dec 10, 1949: Communists take Chiangdu which was last KMT stronghold. Chiang Kai Shek flees to Taiwan. • 1927 was a cataclysmic year for everyone involved in the Chinese Revolution. Mao and his communist cohorts were involved in the uprisings in southern China.
• 1937 - Mao published "On Contradiction" and "On Practice", revolutionary tracts • Successes
- Survival and success of the CCP
- Attracted followers and
OPPRESSION METHODS OF RESISTANCE SUCCESS/FAILURE
ECONOMIC:
Land based – peasants didn't own land – worked (exploited?) land for landlords
Peasants heavily taxed – if you couldn't pay tax you could be imprisoned – you could be beaten, sold into slavery etc
Peasants starve – massive famines frequent
Cities – massive inequality – between business/factory owners and their workers
National Party policies supported business owners and middle class at the expense of the peasants.
Marxism/communism/Maoism
Maoism until 1949 is able to be applied to the areas that the communists control
Communists are able to gain increasing control - massive support to their economic philosophies
POLITICAL:
• When Mao was leading the Autumn Harvest Uprising in Hunan, the KMT (Kuomintang) sent more than 1 million soldiers against him
• 1931-34 Mao establishes the Soviet Republic of China in the mountains of Jiangxi. Red Terror occurs where communists torture and murder thousands of local people.
• 1932: Red Guard have 45 000 which will be used in the future for oppression during the Cultural Revolution
• October 16, 1934 - October 19, 1935 - The Long March, communist escape 8 000 miles to the north and west
• Mao advocates "harsher measures" against non-cooperative peasants. (1941)
• 1942: Mao launches "Rectification of Conduct" Campaign to purge other CPC leaders
• Jan 21, 1949: KMT suffer huge loss against Mao's Red Guards.
• Mass executions landlords and other rightists, more than 1 million likely killed.
• Dec 10, 1949: Communists take Chiangdu which was last KMT stronghold. Chiang Kai Shek flees to Taiwan. • 1927 was a cataclysmic year for everyone involved in the Chinese Revolution. Mao and his communist cohorts were involved in the uprisings in southern China.
• 1937 - Mao published "On Contradiction" and "On Practice", revolutionary tracts • Successes
- Survival and success of the CCP
- Attracted followers and