Communist party

Chairman Mao Ze-dong’s implementations of his Communist ideologies in China from 1949 to 1976 resulted in some of the worst disasters the Chinese have endured. Under Mao, countless innocent Chinese citizens had their lives completely destroyed or ended because they often were falsely accused of political crimes. Various political policies and implementation by whoever Mao favored held limitless power to ruin entire generations of families due to connections to intellectuals, landowners, or…

chat and was a get right to the point leader. Deng Xiansheng was born August 22, 1904 to a well-to-do landowner and one of six siblings. He was an incredibly intelligent man even though he went to college for only one year. Deng joined the Communist Party while in High School where he adopted the last name of Xiaoping meaning “Little Peace”. In 1920 at the age of 16, Deng left China for France where he won a work-study scholarship in Paris. Upon leaving China, Deng proudly remembers his…

numerous rebellions during the Qing Dynasty caused many Chinese to suffer. After the Qing Dynasty ended, China went under Communist rule was supposed to improve the Chinese lifestyle. It was soon realized that Communist rule wasn’t much better than the Qing Dynasty due to the amount of intense labor everyone had to experience. Which means that both the Qing Dynasty and Communist rule failed at creating a peaceful lifestyle for the Chinese. There were multiple rebellions during the Qing Dynasty…

Cold War. The main body of this investigation will assess the political and ideological relations, national interests, as well as varying views of regimes between China (PRC) and the Soviet Union (USSR). The split devastated the international communist movement while laying down the path that would later spark relations between China and the United States in 1971. Two sources, Sino-Soviet Crisis Politics: A Study of Political Change and Communication by Richard Wich, and The…

goals of the Cultural Revolution were, there was no firm plan for its execution. Terrifying purges, torture and brutality were simply enacted on the whims of the Chinese communist dictator, Mao Zedong, and the brainwashed youth organized as Red Guards. The powerful move that Mao enacted to implement his vision of a fully communist state stemmed largely from his insecurities and a power struggle involving Lui Shaoqi. But the effect was much larger than destruction of politicians:…

giant protest against a communist government. The Tiananmen Square massacre may be barred from the web pages in China, but the event that happened in June 4th 1989 is widely known across the world. The Tiananmen Square massacre was a result of a prodemocracy movement by the Chinese citizens that wanted more freedom than what they currently were given by China’s policies. Many students of the country and civil workers wanted reform and a change in the government’s communist leadership, but…

researching the beginnings of Mao’s single party, communist dictatorship over China, I noticed strong similarities between the Communist Chinese Republic and the Soviet Union. During the rise of the Communist Chinese Republic, the Soviet Union had already gained status as a World Power. As a result, Chairman Mao idolized the Soviet empire, and utilized it as a model for the Chinese Republic. In order to attain a similar empire to the Soviet Union, the Communist Chinese Republic required a great…

Mao Zedong is revered by many as the ‘founding father of modern China’, with his legacy being not only physically but metaphorically embalmed. However, many, particularly in the West, question this reverence in so far as he halted economic and political progress in China via tumultuous campaigns such as the Great Leap Forward. In order to consider if Mao's importance in Chinese history has been exaggerated, his significance needs to be assessed. Looking at Mao's the impact of his policies at the…

strict travel restrictions, resulting in many of his exhibitions being curated from his studio in Beijing. Weiwei’s emphasis on social activism likely derived from the influence of his father, the poet Ai Qing, whose criticisms of the ruling Communist Party of China caused his family to be excised…

despite Russia being unprepared to fight its powerful and industrialized enemies. Communist leaders within Russia soon started to gain more control. A similar event occurred in China in 1911, when revolutionaries overthrew the Qing Dynasty. Communism began to spread throughout China causing many problems. The rise of the Communist party in nations such as Russia and China also came with the rise of powerful Communist dictators. Two of these leaders were Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong. Josef Stalin,…