However, while a variety of sources were available regarding his Western counterparts such as Montgomery and Eisenhower, copies of books written or translated into English regarding the matter were rare, to say the least. ... These groups were not dealt with in detail as the essay represents (as best fits the constraints of this task) a general outline of major shifts in popular opinion, and not a detailed analysis of the entire historiography. ... Origins of the Cultural Revolution, which downplays any self-centred motivation on the part of Mao as the minor influence of "resentment" toward...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His analysis describes capitalism as the first stage followed by socialism and finally communism. ... Capitalism not only took on an industrial essence, but also developed into mercantilism. ... The result was they took political power into their own hands and displaced until now ruling classes and their representative, the absolute monarchy. ... The peasants were forced off their land and into the factories. ... Classical communism anticipates the overthrow of the state as the first political unit of analysis, accompanied by the creation of a stateless society. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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Evidently, these ideologies remained enduring features of Mao's thought well into the Cultural Revolution. ... Eventually, the entire countryside was organized into these communes and their aim was to develop a true communist system, but Mao's principal goal was to match the Soviet Union and capitalist West in industrial output (Teacher source #3, Author unknown). ... Corroborating with this analysis, a mass famine did set in and an estimated 40 million people died from starvation. ... Whole villages starved to death In the Xixian county alone, 639 villages were deserted and 200, 0...

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