There are various ways in which single-party leaders of the past have managed to strengthen their power, but what is tantamount is the strengthening of their power domestically, which has proven to be the most vital item on the agendas of two of the twentieth century's most famous single-party leaders; Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong. ... However, things got out of hand as Mao's CCP (Chinese Communist Party) realized that their power was being undermined. ... By having the arts and education conform to Mao's ideologies, it was hoped that it would make the masses more loyal to Mao, a...

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In order to fully comprehend how Mao came to be so powerful, the driving forces and motives which drove Mao need to be analysed. ... Maurice Meisner, now deceased historian and professor at the University of Wisconsin, states in his book 'Mao Zedong,' that what this Darwinist text conveyed to Mao was that "wealth and power" of the nation was the main value to which all other values must be subordinated, not excluding traditional cultural values, if need be. ... " – Mao Zedong's China; Kathlyn Gay, 2008. In 1919, Mao now age 26, travelled to Beijing and took...

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Abstract Throughout the extent of this essay an argument is developed that deems if the leadership of Mao Zedong was historically significant in the victory of the Chinese Communist Party. ... Mao Zedong is responsible for leading a victorious communist social revolution, each planned attack, each piece of propaganda, and each speech of motivation dispensed by Mao brought the change that was necessary for China to recover. ... Within this evaluation it will be clearly shown to what extents was Mao Zedong's leadership responsible for the victory of the Chinese Communist Party. ... This ...

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Correspondingly, impact from their horrible family's 7experience during China's 1966-1967 Cultural Revolution8 and grievance towards Mao Zedong and the Chinese government, the Gao Brothers create works, notably The Execution of Christ, which 'ranges from the political and satirical to questions of material and spiritual spaces, and takes a humanitarian stance that questions the role government and the individual play within contemporary Chinese society since 1985.9' Thus, it can be seen that both of them are critical of the dark reign of the role governments and express th...

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The main attraction to this sphere of interest was the dramatic shift in popular Western opinion of Chairman Mao Zedong over the last few decades. ... 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. ... OCR is written before Mao's death in 1976, and prior to the reversal of the depictions of major protagonists in the Chinese leadership. As a result, OCR is much more sympat...

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The "communist" government that Mao Zedong brutally sculpted and administered has gone through an intensive transformation. ... The Chinese economy stagnated during the social-oriented rule of Mao in the 1950's. ... Mao was too theoretical concerning communism in the wake of the 1949 revolution. ... As Dwight Perkins says, Mao Zedong, during the last decade and a half of his life, dedicated his energies to creating a new "socialist man" who would work selflessly within a society devoid of class distinctions and motivated by the social good rather than personal material benefits. ... I...

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Immediately after the initial armed conflict on Zhenbao Island, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev enacted an aggressive diplomacy strategy formulated to reach a peaceful accord with Mao Zedong and the Chinese. ... China dismissed Moscow's aggressive posture and Mao was reluctant to respond to peace negotiations. ... Mao Zedong deemed this information as being credible and believed that an attack was imminent, so he agreed to peace negotiations with Moscow. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and his Chinese counterpart Mao Zedong both seemingly utilized Sun Tzu...

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There is no determined reason why Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Communist Party and the principal leader of China, unleashed millions of youths, soldiers and later adults, male and female against the historical, educational, artistic, musical, and cultural institutions and the people of China. ... A large impact of the Cultural Revolution was on the youth of China, especially the university students who were young and idealistic and did not want to follow Mao's orders. ... Mao wanted to send graduates into society, and declared that it was necessary for all intellectual students to go ...

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While he worked agreeably for 20 years with Chairman Mao Zedong in common cause for the great Chinese proletarian revolution in the 1960s, Liu certainly had potential to become Mao's successor. ... Mao Zedong was a proud, melodramatic man. ... Unlike Mao, Liu did not let personal factors interfere with his dedication to the revolution. ... Consequently, Liu Shaoqi's political plans and goals were far more realistic than those of Mao Zedong's. ... Mao felt that "his own ideals of substantive justice and "face-to-face" responsibility between leaders and led" were being violate...

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From 1949 China was ruled by communist dictator Mao Zedong. ... The foreign policy objectives of a communist China however are not purely national in spirit, because Mao firmly believed in the ideological superiority of communism and claimed for China the role of leadership in the drive to world revolution. ... Mao expressed his basic intentions to unify China and create a "new world" in a poem: "Great plans are being made; A bridge will fly to join the north and south, a deep chasm become a thoroughfare the mountain goddess, it she is still there, will be startled to find her world so change...

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Mao Zedong, the Communist reformer of the state of China, the "people's" leader, first expressed his thoughts and concerns on population in 1949; "Even if China's population multiplies many times, she is fully capable of finding a solution, the solution is production." (Xizhe, 17) Mao Zedong's views were certainly embraced as he encouraged the population to have many children to make the country strong. ... It is approximated that the total population of China grew almost 200 percent in size under Zedong. ... The 1953 census made Mao rethink his take on population growth and...

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"(Compestine 28) Unknowing that Comrade Li is a political officer of Chairman Mao who planned to rid the country of intellectuals like her parents, she has no hard feelings against Comrade Li. ... Ling begins to realize that Chinese intellectuals, including her family, are disliked by Chairman Mao Zedong, therefore, unpopular among the working class of China, the majority of the population. ... To prevent her mother and herself from going another week without the food needed to keep them healthy, Ling risks her life to obtain the meat limited only to the political officials working for M...

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Mao Zedong Mao Zedong rose from peasantry to become one of China's most historically significant political leader. While working in the Peking University library under Li Dazhao, Mao became a member of the CCP. ... Mao believed that China's Marxist revolution would be victorious for the peasant class. ... During the years 1958 to 1961, Mao's leadership drastically faltered. ... This event proceeded the Hundred Flowers movement initiated by Mao. ...

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Upon his moral links with his followers, the strength of which was unique even in that golden age of democratic nationalism, he has also influenced various great leaders in the 21st century, such as Mao. ... Mao Zedong was the leader of this economic and social campaign to rapidly transform the country's agrarian economy into a communist society through immense industrialization8 agriculture and collectivization9. ... For example, China's leader Mao begins to adapt and carries out a series of social, economical and political movements that began to shape China's communist party ...

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A young man named Mao Zedong led one of the Communist groups. ... Mao had carefully nurtured his support among the nation's peasants, believing that if he could control the countryside, the cities too would fall into his hands. ...

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The two factions held civil war for more than 20 years before the CCP won control of China under Mao Zedong. During the Rule of Mao the government enforced many policies favoring socialist and communist policies, such as: Cultural Revolution and the Five-Year Plan, in which the government tried to equalize the social classes and unite the country as one under the banner of equality and contempt against the west. During the latter half of the 20th century Deng Xiaoping emerged as the new leader of China, and instituted many policies contrasting his predecessor Mao Zedong. ...

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Through the bitter hardships endured by the Vietnamese due to French colonialism, one could not foresee the development of Vietnamese nationalism and resistance. However, this became a reality because of Ho Chi Minh and The Viet Minh's nationalistic ways and determination to overthrow the French and...

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A Brief History After a century of wars and epidemics that left serious damages; the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949. Crude birth rate had fallen from 37 to 20 per thousand and life expectancy had doubled drastically from approximately 35 years to 66 years. The communist leader Mao ...

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China, the largest country in the world, is in the ongoing process of rapid economical development. With a large population, China has a strong potential to affect many different countries. However, large population can be a disadvantage to Chinese government. With an uncontrollable population, Chin...

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Geopolitical challenges of China nowadays are directly connected with the perspective of becoming a superpower. That is why in order to investigate Chinese status it is necessary to elaborate on Chinese geopolitical environment its conditions and prospects. During centuries geopolitics of China was ...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. Instead, the young Stalin bec...

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In 1979, the Chinese government selected to make Chinese communism more open and capitalistic. Under the new leadership of Deng Xiaoping, China revolutionized its policy on fertility and wealth. The government wanted to do more than just equitably divide up wealth; instead, it started focusing on ...

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