The Chinese movie, "To Live" portrays an unbiased life of a commoner family from the Civil war to the end of the Cultural Revolution. The film is segmented into 3 sections: civil war, Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. ... Later with the coming of the revolution, the new landlord of their house is arrested and shot, depicting the coming to power of the communist party, as well as the violence used by the party to the counter revolutionaries. ...

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He spent a lot of time in Changsha's library where he studied economics and the writings of a revolutionary from the west, Karl Marx's and Communism. ... After the Nationalists waged war on the CCP the party was split on how the revolution was going to be played out. ... After the Japanese surrendered, Mao's Red Army, now called the PLA (peoples liberation army), would war with the nationalists for the right to lead China. ... He spent a lot of time in Changsha's library where he studied economics and the writings of a revolutionary from the west, Karl Marx's and C...

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This sphere of interest became more specific and eventually led to a study of inconsistencies regarding historical justifications of Khrushchev's dismissal of war hero Marshall Zhukov. ... In the case of Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, as there can be no definite argument on why Mao Zedong would encourage Chinese students to enact the decimation of his own revolutionary gains, the Cultural Revolution remains unbelievably enigmatic. ... Along similar lines, and in the Marxist Tradition, Leftist writer and co-founder of Worker's World Party, Sam Marcy, interprets th...

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A decade later he forged a union between several Chinese groups, called the Revolutionary Alliance Society. ... China joined the Allies in World War I, and at the Versailles peace conference the Chinese demanded an end to foreign spheres of influence in their country. ... At the end of the war against Japan in 1945 the alliance collapsed into civil war. ... Hong Kong itself, ceded to the British in 1842 during the Opium Wars, could theoretically have remained a British colony forever. ...

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