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Communism Transforms China: What Caused The Chinese Civil War?
Communism Transforms China: What Caused The Chinese Civil War?
1. Why were the Nationalists and Communists working together in the 1920’s?
4. Which side did the large peasant population choose to support in the Chinese Civil War?
But there were groups within the country that did not share
Mao’s desire for permanent revolution. Even some
Communist leaders were upset by the Red Guards’ attacks
and began to turn against the movement by the late 1960’s.
The movement quickly grew out of control and became. Finally Mao was
pressured to dissolve the movement in late 1968, but it was too late for many
Chinese. Historians believe somewhere between 500,000 and two million
people lost their lives as a result of the Cultural Revolution.
The millions of radicalized young people who participated in the Red Guard
Units were now viewed as a threat to public security. Many of the students
were sent to poverty stricken parts of the rural countryside to be re-educated
in the ways of rural Communism. Many of these former members of the Red
Guards were never seen from again, some did return to their home cities after
Mao’s death almost a decade later. In the end the Cultural Revolution did
allow Mao Zedong to retain power until his death, but the long-term result
will be China’s eventual rejection of radical communism by the 1980’s.
8. Who enforced the strict communist policies of Mao during the Cultural Revolution?
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