STUDIES OF CHANGE: The Chinese Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution in China was the result of years of discontent among China's people at their outdated government and society, but what were the efficacious, particular motives and conditions for cultural revolutionary Mao Tse-Tung to bring about such major reforms? ... Evidently, these ideologies remained enduring features of Mao's thought well into the Cultural Revolution. ... During his reign of power in the Chinese Communist party, Mao launched what he called 'The Great Leap Forward,' which was a movement wh...

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Communists wanted to make it clear that if they gain industrial power, it would grow China. ... First off, he started the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution was aimed at gaining control of China, and forcing the conversion over to socialist ideas. ... They controlled all industrial production, agriculture and more. ... During and after the Cultural Revolution, you were not free to think what you wanted to think. ...

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However, Mao knew the Soviet model for industrial development would be ineffective due to China's high ratio of workers to resources meaning many workers would become inefficient. ... Stalin also maintained his power throughout all of his economic policies, unlike Mao, who after the Great Leap Forward re-established himself through the Cultural Revolution. ... Stalin and Mao's economic policies were motivated by a need to increase the industrial workforce in order to create a powerful economy. ... The social revolution portrayed by the Culture Revolution and the necessity to get rid...

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In 1993, China "s GNP grew by 10 percent, industrial output was up 18 percent, and foreign trade had risen by 20 percent. ... At the third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party held in December of 1978 was a turning point in the evolution of industrial management in the People's Republic. ... This to many Chinese people was known as China's Managerial Revolution. Beginning with the introduction of new management techniques in 4,000 Siuchuan enterprises in 1979 (also in a fewer number of enterprises in Yunnan and Anh...

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Popov, 2007) argue that the transformation of these two countries was caused by the adverse supply shock that resulted from deregulation of prices and change in relative price ratios that created the need for reallocation of resources in order to correct the industrial structure inherited from centrally planned economy. The end of Cultural Revolution in China in 1976 revived the two competing forces of institutional centralization and accelerated growth, which in contrast requires decentralization (Riskin, 1987). ... China was impoverished by the Cultural Revolution, while the Vietnamese econo...

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In 1966 began the Cultural Revolution, organized by Mao against the members of the Party. ... The purchases abroad were limited in order to reform the industrial economy. ... China favours the establishment of foreign company (273 000 in 1996 who employ 17 millions of people) and China buys a lot of foreign technology to improve the industrial sector. ...

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According to Josh Brooman's 'China since 1900', Industry was the main focus of the GLF as Mao's plan was to make China one of the world's leading industrial nations. ... Despite the fact that Mao was a peasant and that he led the peasant revolution his attitude towards peasants became very bitter. ...

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The Bolshevik Revolution, headed by Vladimir Lenin, had seized power after Czar Nicholas II abdicated on March 15, 1917 (2). ... China, being less technologically advanced than The Soviet Union, wished to increase domestic and industrial development faster than that of the Soviet Union. ...

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