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1
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How did the PRC enforce control?

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Through the military. In a series of reunification champaigns, armies were sent all over China to get people in order.

2
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What year did Mao introduce the ‘three anti-movement’ campaigns? What were the targets?

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  1. The targets were:
    Waste
    Corruption
    Inefficiency
3
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What and when were the ‘three anti-movements expanded into? What was their intention?

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In 1952, they were expanded into the ‘five anti-movements’ which was intended to stimulate the economy?

4
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What were the ‘five anti-movements’ going to attack?

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Corrupt officials and the bourgeoisie:
Industrial sabotage
Tax evasion 
Bribery
Fraud
Theft of government property
5
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What was the main aim of the anti-movements? Why did Mao start it in 1952?

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To destroy the remnants of what Mao defined as the ‘bureaucratic capitalist class’. After 3 years Mao felt he was able to turn openly against the classes which he had previously been obliged to tolerate.

6
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How was China turned into a ‘one party’ state? By when?

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By 1952, all other political parties (splinters from the GMD) had disappeared. This was accomplished though political purging as well as mass campaigns which solidified the CCP’s control over China.
An attack was also held on ‘counter-revolutionaries and imperialists’ who showed signs of disagreeing with the communist regime.

7
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How many ‘bandits and criminals’ were killed in Shanghai?

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28,000.

8
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How did the CCP enforce conformity? What happened if you didn’t participate?

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Neighbours spied on neighbours, children on parents and each street had 'watchers' who kept the local CCP informed on anyone or anything suspicious. 
If you didn't participate, you were labelled as 'class enemies' and labelling became the chief means of enforcing conformity.
9
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What did Mao want to do in order to obtain a proletariat state? How did he do it?

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Get rid of the bourgeoisie class. Through acts of violence, he showed no mercy.

10
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What was the chief means of political and social control the CCP had over its citizens?

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The ‘dangans’ - a form of intrusive registration which meant the state had details and records of every individual.

11
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When was Mao’s ‘First Five-Year Plan’?

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1952-6

12
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What justified the extension of state control? Why?

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The Korean war because it put huge strain and additional burdens on the young republic state.

13
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What was the ‘politburo’?

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The inner core of the CCP, only had 20 members.

14
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What did ‘Democratic Centralism’ mean in China?

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The Chinese communists doing what Mao wanted them to do.