Essay plans

How far was Mao’s ideology the main reason for the introduction of the GLF in 1958?

  • MAO’S IDEOLOGY

  • ECONOMIC REASONS

  • POLITICAL REASONS

To what extent did the first 5 year plan 1952-56 lead to the modernisation of China?

Define modernisation = industrialisation, economic efficiency and high tech production

  • HEAVY INDUSTRY

How accurate is it to say that the GLF in agriculture was a catastrophe for the Chinese people?

  • People’s communes

  • Great Famine

  • Agricultural production

How far do you agree that the Chinese economy was transformed in the years 1949-62?

  • 1st 5 yr plan 1951-6

  • 2nd 5yr plan 1958-62

  • 3rd 5yr plan 1962-65

Factors affecting timing of the decision to rein in the Red Guards in August 1967

  • PLA unwilling to expose itself to scrutiny by Red Guards

  • RG units spent much time fighting eachother 1967

  • Huge numbers of people at all levels purged from CCP 1967-8

  • Liu and Deng demoted from power late 1966

  • Jan 1967- Shanghai in hands of radical revolutionaries

  • Several foreign embassies ransacked by RGs 1967

  • September 1968- reorganisation of provinces under revolutionary committees complete

  • Schools and universities closed for two years

  • Thousands of ‘Capitalist roaders’ persecuted 1966-68