Marxism‚ Stalin believed Mao using the peasants as the basis for revolution is not the right interpretation of Marxism. Stalin thought workers in cities should be the basis to lead the revolution. Also‚ Stalin feared Mao compete against him in the Communist world‚ so Stalin wanted a weak China and the USSR will then dominate Asia. He made his policies through self-interests. Thus‚ Stalin wanted Mao to cooperate with Chiang Kai-shek instead of carrying out a revolution. Therefore Mao believed Stalin
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Wilson’s ideal of national self-determination. During that year‚ the Amritsar massacre on April 13th in India solidified India’s view of colonialism as unacceptable and prominent figures of China’s mass demonstration on May 4th later founded the Communist party in 1921. According to a passage on page 372‚ on March 1st‚ 1919 Koreans were also inspired to demonstrate against Japanese oppression‚ although it was quickly crushed after brutal Japanese crackdown. Although nationalism was in full effect
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and numerous reasons such as Lenin’s testament‚ Stalin’s poor revolutionary record‚ not being an intellectual thinker and being a dull and uninspiring person all led Stalin to being a less favoured candidate. Lenin was the overall leader of communist Russia‚ and was very well respected. His word was law‚ and they carried weight in the party. Therefore‚ Lenin’s testament would have made the party biased against Stalin due to the fact that he criticises Stalin by calling him “rude” and by mentioning
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China and joins the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He becomes an instructor at the Military and Political Academy in Xi’an. 1926: He spends a year in Moscow undergoing Marxist training. At the end of the year he returns to southern China. 1929: He becomes an organizer of the Communist enclave in Guangxi Province in southern China. That enclave failed and Deng joined an enclave led by Mao Zedong in Jiangxi Province. 1933: Due to internal rivalries in the Communist Party Deng is denounced and
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and accomplishments in his rule. He is said to be the founding father of the modernization of the Republic of China‚ as well as even being compared to very powerful dictators such as Joseph Stalin and even Adolf Hitler. He was the chairman of the Communist Party in China. He transformed China into a single-party socialist state of which industry and business was nationalized to increase economic growth. Mao had a very different and dictatorial way of running China‚ he wanted a higher rate of economical
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It is on the verge of reclaiming what it sees as its rightful position in the world. China’s global influence is expanding and within a decade its economy is expected to overtake America’s. In his first weeks in power‚ the new head of the ruling Communist Party‚ Xi Jinping‚ has evoked that rise with a new slogan which he is using‚ as belief in Marxism dies‚ to unite an increasingly diverse nation. He calls his new doctrine the “Chinese dream” evoking its American equivalent. Such slogans matter enormously
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China." Chen Duxiu - played many different roles in Chinese history. He was a leading figure in the anti-imperial Xinhai Revolution and the May Fourth Movement for Science and Democracy. Along with Li Dazhao‚ Chen was a co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921. He was its first General Secretary. May Fourth Movement - was an anti-imperialist‚ cultural‚ and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4‚ 1919‚ protesting the Chinese government’s weak response
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political campaign launched by the new Communist government in the beginning of March 1950. It purposes were to solidify the new government and its new rules in the whole country. Also‚ the campaign aimed to eradicate opposition parties‚ especially the Nationalist vestiges from Kuomintang. But most importantly‚ the Communist government was trying to bring in regime consolidation in the country. Strauss first explains to readers the reason why the Communist party chose to organize the mass urban campaign
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The Five Year Plans SUCCESSES FAILURES The improvements in production between 1928 and 1937 were phenomenal: Coal - from 36 million tonnes to 130 million tonnes. Iron - from 3 million tonnes to 15 million tonnes. Oil - from 2 million tonnes to 29 million tonnes. Electricity - from 5‚000 million to 36‚000 million kilowatts. Poorly organised – inefficiency‚ duplication of effort and waste. The Soviet Union gave opportunities to women - crèches were set up so they could also work. Women became doctors
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Two of the main ideas in the Communist Manifesto is that one‚ class alienation is a constant struggle within a society‚ and two that capitalism causes individuals to suffer both financially and socially. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles’ Communist Manifesto provides examples and explanation of these issues in order to convince the world of the benefits of communism‚ assuming communism is the solution for these dilemmas. According to the Manifesto the two varying classes have their own problems‚ whether
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