Stage Three: Crisis Stage (rule of the radicals)
Civil war
-War breaks out between the guomindang and the CCP
-Foreign war
It is interrupted by the Sino-Japanese war and due to them being in a weakened state the Japanese emerge victorious
-Centralisation of power in a revolutionary council
The main power is centralized in the CPC.
-Council is dominated by one individual
Mao is the dominating leader and he is trying to push forwards Maoism
-Terror is used to rule; revolution turns inward on itself (Causes of terror:habitual violence,pressure of war, economics; class or ideological struggles)
Ultimately Mao’s attempt at a ‘Great Leap Forward’ – radical reforms to agriculture and industry, to facilitate China’s ‘catching up’ to the West – were ambitious, naive and ultimately disastrous. His economic policies achieved negligible outcomes and contributed to one of the worst famines in human history
-Use a common form of address
Constant propaganda to keep the public’s support. Cunning and manipulative, Mao was able to exploit party factionalism, isolate and exclude opponents, and disassociate himself from disaster despite the failed outcomes of his policies
-War breaks out between the guomindang and the CCP
-Foreign war
It is interrupted by the Sino-Japanese war and due to them being in a weakened state the Japanese emerge victorious
-Centralisation of power in a revolutionary council
The main power is centralized in the CPC.
-Council is dominated by one individual
Mao is the dominating leader and he is trying to push forwards Maoism
-Terror is used to rule; revolution turns inward on itself (Causes of terror:habitual violence,pressure of war, economics; class or ideological struggles)
Ultimately Mao’s attempt at a ‘Great Leap Forward’ – radical reforms to agriculture and industry, to facilitate China’s ‘catching up’ to the West – were ambitious, naive and ultimately disastrous. His economic policies achieved negligible outcomes and contributed to one of the worst famines in human history
-Use a common form of address
Constant propaganda to keep the public’s support. Cunning and manipulative, Mao was able to exploit party factionalism, isolate and exclude opponents, and disassociate himself from disaster despite the failed outcomes of his policies