Mao Zedong
- flees from base a starts to rebuild the Chinese Communist Party
- Mao built party on the peasantry (no urban workers to deal with)
- Chiang fought hard to rid the CCP from their stronghold even as the Japanese began to invade Manchuria
Mao's China, 1949-1958
- Tradition in China gave new ruler "Mandate from Heaven"
- Democratic Centralism- Total obedience to the leader (Leninist model)
- The First Plan (5 year plan) some aid from USS, Emphasis on heavy industry
- Like Russia there was a form of collectivization called APC's (Agricultural Producer Co-Operatives)
"Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land."
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
summary
Mao rebuilds the Chinese Communist Party.