Mao's position within government
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- Created on: 22-03-19 14:26
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- Mao's position within government
- became party leader as a result of the Rectification Campaign
- the purge of Mao's enemies, real and imagined, inside the Party
- Mao's main ideas
- Nationalism
- Mao wanted to free China from foreign exploitation
- Mao only kept a fragile relationship with the Russian Communists to use to his advantage
- Mao put nationalism over every other element of ideology
- Continuing revoltion
- each generation participating in the revolution
- made the tactical compromise of regulating capitalism, not destroying
- people were expected to watch out for enemies of the revolution and also examine their own behaviours
- Listening to the people
- he got the people to get involved in discussing policy
- debatable due to the Hundred Flowers Campaign
- Mass mobilisation
- wanted to launch mass campaigns to achieve specific targets
- numbers and enthusiasm mattered much more than experts
- China's huge population was its main asset
- Nationalism
- his power was not absolute because the collective leadership of the Party was theoretically responsible for policy
- however, Mao set the pace and direction of the policies
- as time passed he became harder to challenge
- became party leader as a result of the Rectification Campaign
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