Consolidation of Power 1949-57
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- Consolidation of Power
- Terror
- Labelling and struggle sessions
- PLA- Loyal and indoctrinated Professional army, led initially by Peng Dehuai
- Triads- 150,000 arrested
- City wide crime clean up
- Laogai- labour camps, initially just prisons but became centres for thought reform and 're-education'
- 2 million prisoners by 1953
- Anti foreigners campaigns
- Korean War 1950-3
- Encouraged Great Terror 1951, and Anti-Movements
- 'Resist America, Defend Korea'
- Anti America campaign, fear of germ warfare
- Helped to increase volunteering and donating
- Anti America campaign, fear of germ warfare
- Increase in nationalism
- 'Resist America, Defend Korea'
- Anti America campaign, fear of germ warfare
- Helped to increase volunteering and donating
- Anti America campaign, fear of germ warfare
- 'Resist America, Defend Korea'
- International success and respect
- PRC could now claim they were the most powerful Communist nation
- Power of the party increased due to war time fear
- Korean War 1950-3
- Reunification/ securing borders
- Tibet
- May 1951 Tibet came under Chinese Sovereignty after 6 month campaign
- Guangdong- GMD heartland
- China was split into 6 regions each with 4 leaders
- Xinjiang
- Tibet
- City wide crime clean up
- Triads- 150,000 arrested
- Antis movements
- 3 antis Movement 1951, targeted party officials
- Corruption, waste, and delay. Tigers and Flies
- Mass meetings and denunciations
- Corruption, waste, and delay. Tigers and Flies
- 5 antis movement targeted business owners and the bourgeoisie directly, 1952
- Bribery, tax evasion, theft of state property, theft and economic espionage
- Mass meetings and denunciations
- 3 antis Movement 1951, targeted party officials
- Cadres, reported on people
- Dangan, dossier with everyone's personal information
- Housing, pensions and employment
- Danwei- work unit
- Great Terror 1951
- One in every thousand in each area was an acceptable target
- March 1951, senior party official, mao had police sent in to 16 cities, 17,000 people arrested
- Party official stats in 1954 710,000, estimates put it as high as 2 milion
- Survivors lived in fear and became isolated and many were sent to labour camps or exiled
- Hundred Flowers Campaign
- The initial call was for criticism of policies not of Mao personally
- Critics were initially slow to surface
- Mao went on tour to 'engage' with peasants
- Criticism started to trickle in, which then developed into a flood
- July 1957, Mao turned on the critics, calling them rightists
- Criticism started to trickle in, which then developed into a flood
- Mao went on tour to 'engage' with peasants
- Perhaps Mao didn't think there would be any criticism
- Critics were initially slow to surface
- April 1956, Mao makes speech to CCP, let 100 flowers bloom and 100 schools of thought contend
- Influenced by events in Russia, De-Stalinisation
- Attempt to win over intellectuals
- April 1956, Mao makes speech to CCP, let 100 flowers bloom and 100 schools of thought contend
- Influenced by events in Russia, De-Stalinisation
- April 1956, Mao makes speech to CCP, let 100 flowers bloom and 100 schools of thought contend
- July 1957, Mao turned on the critics, calling them rightists
- The initial call was for criticism of policies not of Mao personally
- Korean War 1950-3
- Encouraged Great Terror 1951, and Anti-Movements
- Increase in nationalism
- International success and respect
- PRC could now claim they were the most powerful Communist nation
- Power of the party increased due to war time fear
- Terror
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