An attempt to significantly increase economic productivity in China, Mao advocated mass organization and stirred the revolutionary enthusiasm amongst the Chinese people. ... As a commander of the Chinese forces, Peng rallied his forces during the Korean War in 1950. ... While he was a key figure in the Korean War, Peng Dehui was also a notable commander of the Long March. ... The 1911 Revolution Since 1904, groups of radical young Chinese constructed revolutionary units in Hankou and Wuchang. These revolutionaries intended to overthrow the Manchu state and restore it to Chinese rule. ...

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Because Taiwan quickly became a market-oriented, pro-capitalist American ally, while China adopted socialist policies at home and revolutionary ones abroad, the idea of comparing the development of the two seemed somewhat pointless. ... While the "alternative- authors rather unique arguments lend themselves to point-by-point analysis and criticism, let us rap up the "big picture- of why the CCP won the civil war, as offered by the major "traditional- explanations "the incompetence and repressiveness of the KMT. ... One of many problems with the "traditional- explanation is that if pe...

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Introduction In the assessment of historical significance the Chinese Civil War is deemed to be very significant. The Chinese Civil War is recognized as the greatest stride towards unity in Chinese history. ... It was easy to see that the dynasty was corrupt- and everyone was fully aware of it, the European oppression that Chinese citizens endured prompted the Boxer rebellion Sparking means for change, professional revolutionary Sun Yat-Sen emerged with strength and focus to rid China of the Manchu's corruptive nature. ... Even though the aggressors of the war were the Nationalists, what ...

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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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In book two 380a he says that in the case of a story such as the Trojan war, the poet must say that the events are either not the actions of god, or must say that they are the actions in "more or less the sort of explanation we are looking for at the moment." ... According to Writer Jerome Silbergeld, Chairmen Mao once said that "revolutionary literature and art are part of the whole revolutionary cause, they are the cogs and wheels in it." ...

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Of course one's view was deeply prejudiced by one's position vis-à-vis the Cold War, one's feelings about Chairman Mao 毛主席 and the Little Red Book 毛主席語錄, one's reaction to the Tiananmen Square Incident 六四運動, and one's feelings about China as banker to the World. ... The Taipings were a revolutionary group with a highly eccentric blend of religious doctrine and political utopianism; at their peak they had half of China under armed control. ... The final result, a crushing burden of war reparations, made things even worse. ...

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