Communist Revolution Dbq Analysis

The Communist Revolution had major impacts economically, socially, and politically. It had positive impacts that helped the country and it had negative aspects that affected the Chinese. Either way, Mao Tse-Tung impacted the Chinese in different ways. Mao forced a new society gradually as time progressed. He started off by having teenagers and people in their early 20’s join the Red Guard. Mao believed they were perfect for it since teenagers are fearless, eager, and were easy to manipulate (Document 3). He also started enforcing grains to be sold to Russia (the Soviet Union) to boost their economy. However, trading most of their grains caused their citizens to starve. The trading also caused the Chinese to start waiting in lines to get an …show more content…
A major event that occurred was starvation throughout China. Mao wanted to boost the economy, so he started selling more grains to Russia causing many Chinese to suffer from food shortage from this economic failure. Since this economic failure occurred it caused people to flee China and showed poor representation of Mao (Document 1). Mao also started putting teenagers and people in their early 20’s in the Red Guard creating better representation of teenagers. This made them seem more responsible and trustworthy since they put the fate of the country into their hands (Document 3). Over time gender equality started evolving, changing from different perspectives. At one point in time Mao considered women as the greatest thing that ever happened to man. He views them as hard workers and independent stabled people. It had an impact on everyone of how useful and diligent women are. He later on considers women worthless and treats them as if they can’t do anything on their own. It causes people to treat women as a child that needs constant attention and cannot do anything on its own (Document 6). Above all, these events impacted the Chinese causing them to have different views in society along with the