2, ccp 1936-1946 Flashcards
(13 cards)
mao background
said peasant, lie prosperous grain farmer ment he had educatin up to uni to boost man of the people. Job in the university library join Marxist group and May Fourth student protests against ‘unequal treaties’, head of Peasant Training Institute improvic basic literacy of peasants, developed own Marxist theory=importance of revolutionary power of peasants, led Autum Uprising was arrested escaped led communist rural retreat, established Soviet Republic and elected as Chairman of Politburo, 1934 led Long March
long march 1934
end united front, 1934 6,000 mies only 5,000 reach Yan’an
Supported by
USSR, Comintern and Marxism advise training money, tell the cpp to cooperate=united front, not at stage for communist revolution proletariat too small
Political struggle
follow cominterm or more independent party and ideological struggle follow orthodox Marxism= Twenty Eight Bolsheviks and had been trained in moscow or adapt to china
Yan’an rectification campaign
rid of critics study texts written by Mao, ‘struggle meetings’ self criticism, tortured beaten by secret police, mao thought official doctrine
Allies
Zou Enlai and Kang Sheng lead secret police
Personality cult
rewrote long march seen as great visionary, heroism, correct decisions, official portrait illuminate by sun rays, ‘chairman mao’, ‘great helmsman’, song the East is Red eulogised Mao
Mao Zedong Thought
Peasants revolutionary class, proletariat 1%
National self-reliance, not reliant on foreign powers but received support from ussr not comfortable with power imbalance with stalin
Continuing the revolution, need to use the people in violence against landlords to tie people to party and each generation involved to stop a counter revolution
Class struggle, party need to be rectified to stop new powers
Learning from the people, masses should opinion on polices not like Russia top-down approach
Mass mobilisation, use people in mass campaigns
National revolution, need to unite to rid landlords and foreign influence
land reform
radical in controlled provinces kill landlords and confiscate land less radical in united front instead focus on rent reductions but return radical after
Social changes
end arranged marriages, women more freedom choice and economic opportunities, improve literacy
jiang married
second wife Soong Mei-Ling, daughter rich Shanghai Businessman, christians, educated in usa=close connections, sisters married politicians, brother became finance minster
Moscow for military traing
returns in control of soviet funded Whampoa Military Academy trianed officers to be loyal to him in NRA ‘Generalissimo’
No elections meant
not popular support, supported by businessman, anti-Communists, landowners, wealthier peasants, gangsters like Big Ears Du by Opium Suppression Bureau allowed gangster to continue drug trade if share profits, Big ears du leader of green gang in Shanghai hired to attack communist became general in the army
