Methods - Mao Consolidation and Maintenance

When were peasant farms merged and into what?

1953 - mutual aid teams/cooperatives

What did the CCP announce in 1954?

That grain collection was greater than ever before

How did the anto-campaigns maintain control?

• Mass mobilisation = constant engagement/distraction

• constant informing on others

• dossier/class tags = blacklist

Between which years was the FYP? How did industrial production change? What project was accomplished?

1952-1957 - 27000 - 65000 m.y. Nanking road

How did inflation change between 1949 and 51? How was this accomplished?

1000%-15%:

• introduction of new currency - yuan

• spending cuts

Between 1967-72, how many urban chinese moved to the countryside? How did this control them?

12 million - dissipated populace so more difficult to revolt

Why were legal methods the 2nd most significant factor?

• Some elements (FYP, anti-campaigns) raised morale so reduced the likelihodd of dissent

• Others repressed the people (anti-campaigns, migration)

• However, disrupted by the GLF, making force necessary.

What proportion of old nationalists and bosses were killed due to quotas?

1.2 per 1,000

Which campiagns killed landlords in the early 50s, and how many?

“speak bitterness” campaigns 1-3 mill

When were the Reunification Campaigns, and in which provinces?

1950-51 in Tibet, Xinjiang, Guangdong

Laogi killed how many people over Mao’s rule?

25 mill

GPCR uses of force:

• Red guards denounce and attack intelligensia

• “CLeansing the ranks” campaigns: hundreds of thousands killed by the PLA

Why was use of force the most signficant factor?

• chinese rev top-down = need for forceful control

• Necessary as economy failing (particularly post-GLF)

• Eliminated existing opposition

What did re-education programmes involve?

• removal of alternate culture/thought: banning of jazz, etc

• self-censorship - no opposition press after 1950

What created the cult of personality?

• mao pictures and quotes everywhere

• rallies slogans songs in chinese media

When was the Little red book published?

1964

Little Red book info

part of PLA training - consolidated control oevr pla

Why was dissemination of propaganda the 3rd most important factor?

• Reinforced other victories but did little by itself

• Most important for PLA