Establishing Communist Rule: 1949-1957
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- Created on: 22-05-17 15:53
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- How did Mao and the CCP keep control of China?
- Land Reform
- Where land was taken from the landlords and given to the peasants
- Propaganda
- Plays would be performed that spread the communist message
- Posters were displayed all over China with the communist message on
- Sometimes, loud speakers blared out messages as people worked
- Policies towards women
- Marriage Law banned bigamy
- Women were allowed to do jobs they had never done before
- Lots of the supported to CCP as a result
- Education
- The CCP brought education to millions of people for the first time
- They used education to indoctrinate many Chinese school children
- Teachers had to teach about communist beliefs and children were brought up to worship Mao and the CCP
- Mao made sure no-one dared oppose him
- In 1949, thousands of suspected GMD supporters were killed
- Up to a million landlords were killed in the early 1950s
- The Red Army kept tight control of the country
- No political parties other then CCP allowed to exist
- Maoist beliefs
- Self reliance
- Continuing revolution
- Class struggle
- Learning from the people
- Mass mobilisation
- Terror
- People were terrified of being labelled a 'counter-revolutionary'
- People didn't dare speak out against the CCP in case they were arrested
- Policies
- All organisations apart from the CCP were banned
- E.G: churches and religion were banned
- Land Reform
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