Mao Historiography
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kwhitaker1 on May 7, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Domestic - Fenby | logical scientific methods were displaced by utopianism of an increasingly extreme variety - better red than expert |
| Terror - Chang and Halliday | Mao's campaign terrorised even the terrorisers - his most favourable weapon was his pitilessness |
| Agriculture - Chang and Halliday | the system followed that of a labour camp; give the population just enough to keep them alive, and take the rest |
| 100 flowers - Men Cling | the treachery of Mao... completely cowed the Chinese intellectuals so that china's cultural life came to a virtual standstill |
| Cultural Revolution - Fenby | many interrogated had no idea what they were being accused of, but eventually confessed to whatever they were told they had done |
| Great Leap Forward - Chang and Halliday | mao's aim was to gouge as much food out of the peasants as possible |
| Rise to power - Chang and Halliday | Mao did not want it known that he had been ineffectual at Party work, or extremely keen on the Nationalist Party - or that he was ideologically rather vague |
| The Long March - Chang and Halliday | Mao was still very unpopular and not even a member of the secretariat |
| The Long March - Fenby | central element in the Chinese communist story, proof that the movement contained a special strength and an unquestionable visionary leader in Mao |
| Rise to Power - Fenby | mao prized disorder, as long as he was on top |
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