Reason for consolidation of CCP power 1949 - 1952 Flashcards
(18 cards)
Campaigns
resist America and aid Korea campaign 1950-1951
The resist America and aid Korea campaign 1950-1951, foreigners Americans particularly enemies, westerns who stayed persecuted arrested hanged as spies, Christian churches forcibly closed property taken, priests nun expelled, except soviets , no western influences , target Chinese suspected spying for foreign powers institutions with west links businesses unis churches, police confiscate radios, weapons, mass rallies draw Chinese to be suspicious of others
Campaigns
The three antis campaign 1951-52,
The three antis campaign 1951-52, corruption and obstructionist bureaucracy, managers, state officials, party members, mass meetings, official and managers denounced humiliated like Yan’an rectification campaign self criticism ‘rectify’ errors, successful riding corrupt practices like bribery, reminder to party members danger of independent thought
Campaigns
Thought reform campaign 1951-52
Thought reform campaign 1951-52, sus of intellectuals, not like independent thought, educated abroad, wester missionary universities ‘imperialist cultural invasion’ but needed to modernize, forced to study Mao thought, professors make confessions in front of students attend study sessions make self criticisms
Campaigns
Suppression of counter revolutionaries 1950-51
Suppression of counter revolutionaries 1950-51, internal threats anyone links GMD, bandits, members religious sects, denounced investigated, punished , shanghai evidence 40,000 people , executed in public for maximum impact , police send reports Mao wanted control of executions , arrested houses marked with red croses, forced to watch executions to educate, many killed themselves in Yangzi river or jumped from tall buildings
Campaigns
Five antis campaign 1952,
Five antis campaign 1952, bourgeoise bribery, tax evasion, theft state property, cheating government contracts, employees, businesses, group criticisms sessions organized by employers confess and denounce others, mass meetings 3,000 shanghai public denunciations, guilty=property confiscated and enormous fines, to labor camps-laogai, many denounced committed suicide
PLA
reduce
Pla took 41% budget need to reduce 5 –3.5 mil
PLA
conscripts every year
800,000 new conscripts every year all politically indoctrinated and trained in warfare, largest army in the world could indoctrinate large amount every year to be loyal
PLA
Cadres privileged life
criticised for Cadres privileged life style functioned as a family united ‘joined the revolution’ reward for loyalty , ‘iron rice bowl’ guaranteed employment and income for life
PLA
work unit
Party cadres led the Danwei, work unit all employed in urban areas or unemployed under residents’ committee, led by party cadres control housing, grain, cooking oil cloth, permits to travel, marry, enter army/unit, change employment
PLA
role models
role models ‘learn from the PLA’ celebrates films plays literature following Korean war Indoctrinate countryside and work on public projects rebuilding
Propaganda
Korean War
Win in Korean war against superior UN forces, anit imperialsits
Propaganda
Personality cult
Personality cult boosted by leading and stood above party, on stamps and bank notes
Propaganda
seem legitimate
Try to seem legitimate even tho took over from military win most just want peace, gain support claiming represent the will of the people . About foreign influence ‘we have stood up’
Social
killed
Loagai, worked to death mining and Kill quotas 1 in 1000
Social
neighbourhood committees
street neighbourhood committees punish and replace courts
Social
Street committees
Street committees rid of prostitution, brothels under surveillance, prostitutes to re-education centers punishment
Social
drugs
Drug addiction, dealers shot, addicts supply taken, families responsible for future behavior, Tabacco production government monopoly
Social
propaganda to peasants
Spread propaganda to illiterate door to door visits new sparer readings and radio
