Mao Zedong

They did not want to have a neighbouring country that would be allies with the United States, because it might harm and threat communism. By cooperating with the USSR and invading Korea, Mao Zedong wanted to demonstrate that Communist China is powerful country and is able to compete with the rest of the world. Also, Mao wanted to get a support back from USSR, to take Taiwan in the near future. However, communists have miscalculated that the US would not have an interest to invade…

developments of Marxist thought have resulted in Communist Party revolutions in a number of countries, such as that led by the ideologue Vladimir Ilich Lenin within Czarist Russia in 1917 or that of the popular leader Mao Zedong in the People’s Republic of China in 1949.” (Barry 4). Mao Zedong was one of the world’s most effective leaders, and he had roots in Marxist beliefs, him being yet another example of Marx leading through ideas. Marx’s thoughts were revolutionary on their own, so Marx…

Together, both totalitarian dictators, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, killed about one hundred and one million people during their time of rule between the years 1929-1976 and thus, became known as some of the cruelest leaders this world has ever endured. Both leaders lied, deceived, and killed anyone in their way to rise to the top and revolted against the primitive Nationalist parties to place themselves at the thrones of Russia and China. However, both may have seemed to be a hero to many of…

The other contribution by Deng Xiaoping was a agricultural transformation. When the First Five Plan was active, the people's commune was established in rural areas for collectivization for agriculture. The people's commune was a rural organization to manage rural societies of collective farmers. Majority of people lived and worked in rural areas, but the organization didn't effect due to misguided equality(inequality). Deng Xiaoping declared the decollectivization of agriculture to transform…

Despite living a life that many would considered anything but mundane, the Dalai Lama describes himself as a “Simple Buddhist Monk” (“Brief Biography”). “Lhamo Thondup was born in July of 1935 to a farming family in northeast Tibet. By the age of six Thondup was recognized as the reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama after passing a series of test that included sectioning a series of person items once owned by the 13th Dalai Lama (“Brief Biography”). Shortly after Thondup recognition as the new…

that show how the initial promise of a good life under communism is in fact a dream that is shot down. Mao’s Zedong clearly said in his 1949 speech, that “reactionaries should be given land, work, and a chance to remold themselves through labor into new people” (Mao, 2). This would sound like…

In America, many hard-working citizens are focused on making money rather than having a job that has value to them. The Pew Research Center found that millennials, a dominant generation in American, would rather make less money working on a meaningful job than a high paying job that is boring. Three people who focused on having a job that is meaningful to them are Huang Yongyu, Oprah Winfrey and Tenzing Bodosa. These three people have different careers: Mr. Yongyu is an artist, Oprah Winfrey is…

of the main reasons for China’s peacefulness today is its communist government, but China wasn’t always as peaceful as it is today. Earlier philosophies paved the way to communist China. China officially became a communist country in 1947 under Mao Zedong. Despite the fact that China is one of the largest countries in the world in terms of geography and population, its communist…

that in the1960s and today we both had cars that ran on gas. Next, education is a big compare and contrast. For example Red Scarf Girl they learned about Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution. Starring, searching, and typing, I found an example. “The propaganda wall is the wall that displayed the newest campaigns of Chairman Mao.” Today we learn about history, math, and science. Aside from that if school was interesting and fun; we would still have school and learn the same way. The…

left with little to eat when harvests were not up to scratch (179). Another regime similar to this developed in China under Mao Zedong. In 1949, Mao started his strive toward industrialization by putting a state monopoly on grain (182). To further activate his Great Leap Forward, Mao increased the planting of seeds on smaller areas of land and increased irrigation (184). After Mao died in 1976, Deng Xiaoping made reforms by introducing a two-tier system in which households were given their own…