Economic
- 1953- first five year plan
- modeled after the Soviet Union 5 year plans
- focus on heavy industry
- Heavy industry increased- but an unknown amount
- people lied about quotas
- USSR helped, but only 4% was a donation, the other aid came in the form of a loan- to be payed back at a very high interest rate
- unemployment and poverty, esp. in the countryside did not get better
politics:
- Proletariat loses power
- peasants are not as involved
- local party members lose voice & power
- bureaucracy gets much bigger similar to Stalin's government
- Mao does not like bureaucracy
- Old revolutionary party members (who had been there from the beginning) lose power, voices not heard- against bureaucratization and focus on the old goal of giving power back to the proletariat
- he differed and was a traitor: purged
- Gaining to much power, eliminated him
- people thought the committed suicide, he has purged
- split ties from Russia
- Suffran Case:
- Systematic purge of bureaucracy
- driven by of the Goa gang case, suspicion rose that there may be more traitors within the party
- Mao reestablishes power
new class system in china
- New political parties
- political elites
- technological elites
- proletariat grew (good, because the goal of the 5 year plan was to proletariatize)
- emphasis on science in school to help with future industrialization
- much lasrger gaps between the countryside and the city
- people from the country thought people from the cities made so much more than them
- Krustev denounced the cult of personality around Stalin
- these practices were also true of Mao
- Hundred Flowers Instituted in an attempt to de-stalinize and change
- Needed his own intellectuals to rely on the implement the new economic policy
- In a way "falsely safe" basis for intelligentsia to come out
- Scientist free of class association- free to talk about their work
- Artists were still closely regulated
- People unsure about speaking out because in the past people had been persecuted for voicing their concern
- After expressing doubts about the bureaucracy, people started to critisize Mao- that was the end of the movement.
- After realizing the policy was getting out of hand, critics punished
Great Leap Forward 214-239
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