Mao's Terrors: The Cultural Revolution

Mao used public opinion to sway the revolution into unstable equilibrium. Mao uses the strategy of the Cult of Personality to manipulate people to believe what they were doing was right, but in reality, it was just a way for Mao to gain support. His support for classes like peasants and school kids was his way jump-start the

Though Stalin was the main reason Russia is the strong country it is currently, countless people died. In fact, Stalin executed more people than Hitler killed, which is a horrific amount. China, like Russia, was not an advanced country in the least. The country was ruled by corrupt nationalists, who despised communists and killed them. This made China's change from a more nationalistic governing to a communist system very difficult and very bloody. Mao Zedong was a leader in the communist party during the civil war between nationalists and communists. He began as a strong and well-loved leader, quite opposite from Stalin. Mao Zedong would listen to others very well and try to understand their way of thinking, which made him a very successful and loved leader. But when the communist party took over China, he began to change into a hard-headed and less understanding man. Communism under Mao Zedong was beneficial for China. Mao Zedong pushed the citizens of China to be cooperative with each other and share all of their belongings. He also tried to gain the trust and love of all the lower class citizens by taking lands from the higher class citizens and giving them to lower class citizens. He killed many landlords, which the majority of Chinese love him. He was praised for his cruelty. So, in the end, Stalin and Mao Zedong became somewhat similar in their leadership, but Stalin was much more cruel.

Through out all of history we have seen so many heroes and villains all over the world. But one place in particular was in China, with a leader who goes by the name of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was a well-known communist leader in china who actually lead the Chinese Communist Party. He is one of the most important people/historical figures in history. At first he was helping China at the beginning of his ruling, nut then his actions had cause China to completely fall and breakout into violence and complete chaos!! Changing the views of his people because whatever good he had done did not matter anymore from his great down fall. During his ruling though some believed that Mao

Everything we do has consequences- but these repercussions habitually just affect our lives. If we make a mistake it usually affects us and our friends/family or us who have to deal with it. Persevering through these circumstances can be arduous, but now contemplate Mao Zedong’s situation (chairman of the Chinese communist party) who’s one wrong step (and some natural disasters) resulted in the death of 36 million people in China. This period was called the Great Chinese Famine. Mao inaugurated something called The Great Leap Forward, which- according to npr.org, obliged the population to terminate everything and make steel in their backyard furnaces so that China can catch up with the U.S and Britain. All farm work was discontinued so that

While his intentions of making China a better place were good, his actions ended in a disaster. But, “many of his goals, including stressing China’s self-reliance, were generally laudable.” Mao’s tactic to achieving what he wanted was to follow “the example of the soviet model of development through heavy industry with surpluses extracted from peasants.” It is from here that the idea of Maoism is created and how Mao wanted to rule his country. Maoism was the starting point of something big. After all, it is now called Maoism. It was the mark of a revolution because Mao Tse-tung wanted the way he ruled to be different compared to the way that every other country did. Mao believed in equality economics and to advocate those who did not have a socioeconomic class. Maoism is a part of the totalitarian government, where the government controls all aspects of what the public can or cannot view. So, the intentions that he had were good, it was just the way that the government carried things out ended the wrong way. Communism also seeks to eliminate religion and any ownership of land or property, which helped with the way that the leader controlled society.

Mao Zedong rose to power in 1949 founding the People’s Republic Of China. His plan the Great Leap Foward to make China on par with other powerful countries had failed miserably. After the failure of The Great Leap Forward, Mao Zedong’s positioning in the government had weakened. To regain total control over the government, Mao Zedong launched what was called the Cultural Revolution. There is no words for how The Cultural Revolution impacted China. This major event is viewed as China’s cruel history because of the terrorism of the Red Guards, the attacks on the old generation, and the well educated population, and the death of 20 millions people. To this day, Mao Zedong’s legacy still remains.

Mao had lost power after the failure of the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to modernize China’s economy by developing agriculture and industry which led to the deaths of nearly 13,000 people due to famine. Mao eventually stood down as Chairman of the People Republic

Mao Tse-tung was a Chinese dictator responsible for over 49 million deaths which are mainly comprised of policy reforms. Mao was born in a village in the Shaoshan countryside on December 26th, 1893. This being in the southern province of Hunan, China, Mao grew up living an average peasant life which where his time was mostly comprised of working in the rice fields. He had no siblings, only parents, his father, Mao Zedong was a grain dealer, and his mother, Wem Qimei, was a responsible for raising Mao. When Mao was 17, he left his farming community and walked bare foot for three days to the city of Changsha. He briefly served as a soldier in the Chinese military but his role as a fighter came to an end at with the birth of the new Chinese republic. Not long after, he enrolled at Hunan First Normal School in Changsha where he became a certified teacher in 1918. After graduation, Mao found himself a job as a librarian assistant at the University of Beijing, it was here were he first heard about the success of the communist Soviet Union. Mao fell in love with the ideology of communism and became one of the first members of the Chinese communist party in 1921.

In Oct 01, 1949, Mao Zedong published to the world about the creation of the People's Republic of China (“ Mao Zedong proclaim People's Republic of China., …) Mao was the great contributor to united China, brought China out of the oppression of foreign country. From the Opium Wars in between the nineteenth century, Mao Zedong never stopped follow his goal by opened many campaign, and movement that help to develop the modernization of China. Mao was judge about his wrong policies conducted to make the Great Chinese Famine happened between 1959 to 1961 by the campaign of the Anti Right Campaign, the Great Leap Forward happened in 1958 to 1959. Those events were contributed to make the Great Chinese Famine happened, and

More murderous than Hitler, more powerful than Stalin, in the battle of the Communist leaders Mao Zedong trumps all. Born into a comfortable peasant family, Mao would rise up to become China’s great leader. After leading the communists away from Kuomintang rule, he set out to modernize China, but the results of this audacious move were horrific. He rebounded from his failures time and again, and used his influence to eliminate his enemies and to purge China of its old ways. Mao saw a brighter future for China, but it was not within his grasp; his Cultural Revolution was not as successful as he had wanted it to be. Liberator, oppressor, revolutionary, Mao Zedong was the greatest emancipator in China’s history, as his reforms

Mao Zedong, the chairman of the Communist Party of China, was the chief instigator of the revolution. Much of his motivations stemmed from his poor relationships with other party leaders. This tension with the other members was caused by the Great Leap Forward, an attempt by Mao to increase agricultural and industrial production in China within a very short span of time. This resulted in the overworking of farmers, a famine with an estimated 40 million deaths, and a disgrace for Mao (Ramzy). Even his intended successor, Liu Shaoqi, who was groomed to perfection by Mao himself, turned his back on him after the disastrous attempt at reforming the agricultural industry. However, due to Mao's well-placed use of propaganda, he managed to climb back to power, establish a loyal base, and spread his ideology across China. He believed the Communist Party to be corrupt and need to be cleansed of those poisoned by intellectualism. Liu Shaoqi, the newly elected president of China,

The purpose of the President Mao is to consolidate the regime and clean the opponents. But how could the people believe him so easily? The answer is that most of Chinese people lacked of education and had personality cult to Chairman Mao due to China Communism Party propagation. For example, my high school teacher said every family had a portrait of Mao on the wall of their houses when he was very young. Thus it is inevitable that Mao became more and more arrogant and opinionated. He thought the restoration of capitalism and wrongly started an anti-capitalism movement from bottom people to top central leaders. The main thing he did is to eliminate all other cultures except communism.

In 1949 a powerful communist leader by the name of Mao Zedong came to power based on his idea for a, “Great Leap Forward.” This idea was meant to bring China’s economy into the twentieth century. He had assembled a revolutionary government using traditional Chinese ideals of filial piety, harmony, and order. Mao's cult of personality, party purges, and political policies reflect Mao's esteem of these traditional Chinese ideals and history. However, the product of this revolution created a massive national shortage in vital materials and initiated a wide scale famine to China’s people (Gabriel).

Mao Zedong envisioned transforming China from an Agrarian society to an industrial superpower through prompt modernization and assertive leadership. His dream was best exemplified by a speech given when rising to power: “We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view”. Mao’s ambitious vision was important to the resolvement of the dynastic cycle, but the tolls taken by the Chinese people were catastrophic. Mao 's avidity ultimately proved to be his downfall. Millions of people suffered for a failed movement that was intended to aid them. Mao 's reign marks years of infamy and darkness for the Chinese people. Many consequences of the Great Leap Forward led Mao to be replaced by the new and innovative staff of Deng Xiaoping. His administration turned towards systems of privatization and western culture. In regards to The Peoples Republic of China, Mao Zedong 's Great Leap Forward proved to be an unnecessary and unproductive in relation to the modernization of China from an agrarian state; Mao’s successors abandoned many of his policies and ideas and turned to capitalistic principles.

Despite Mao's good intentions, many of his policies and reforms had negative consequences for the Chinese people.