Peasant

March was the event that made Mao Zedong the clear leader of the Chinese Communist Party and later the People’s Republic of China. Mao Zedong, or Tse-tung, was born in a small, isolated village in Hunan Province on December 26th, 1893 to a wealthy peasant family. As the first son to survive infancy, his parents gave him the name Tse-tung, which means, “to shine on the east”. Mao’s name reflects his parents’ hope and desire for their son to be successful and their belief that…

away in the Gulags, he used control of individuals by forcing farmers to combine their farms into mega farms, and Adolf Hitler used ideology to “purify” Germany of lesser races. In the USSR Joseph Stalin used police and military terror to confine peasants in concentration camps known as Gulags where millions died of starvation and exhaustion. Totalitarian leaders used terror and violence to defeat anyone they considered their enemies. The leader’s goal was to protect the interest of his…

He defines the term ‘dominant caste’ as, “A caste may be said to be "dominant" when it preponderates numerically over the other castes, and when it also wields preponderant economic and political power. A large and powerful caste group can be more easily dominant if its position in the local caste hierarchy is not too low” (Srinivas, 1955, p.18). It is interesting to note that he was unconsciously influenced by the Caste Hindu's identity throughout his work. The work, “Dominant Caste and Other…

culture '…and being products of a prerevolutionary bourgeois upbringing…they knew how to behave in a cultured manner in good society." It was in the late thirties that Josef Stalin both declared the Soviet Union as a two class, the workers and the peasants, and one stratum, the intelligentsia, society. In the midst of the Cultural Revolution the intelligentsia or "old intelligentsia" consisted of professors who predominately taught the vydvizhentsy,…

Bloody Sunday Research Analysis The Bloody Sunday protest and massacre was a perfect example of how opportunistic rebellions work by taking advantage of economic downturns and lack of strategic state leadership by inciting hope within the lower working class population, and implanting the potential for success in their minds despite the bloodshed that took place. As confirmed by the theorist Chenoweth, the poorly executed response to the original peaceful protest by the military lead to further…

Zapata would later take over the presidency and controlled the state of Morelos. He exiled the estate owners and divided the seized land to the peasants of Mexico. Zapata would be assassinated in 1919 by Jesus Guajardo, who was taken orders from General Pablo Gonzalez. This sparked an era of rebel groups, revolutionaries and riots. The country was being destroyed and had much of its countryside burned…

supporters joined his cause, and he kept building up a bigger military force. The majority of Mao’s followers were the peasants who believed that his concepts would help to give them achieve new rights and improve their living conditions. During the war preparations, Mao believed that China had two possible futures depending on what happened in the battle (Zedong N.pag.). When Mao led the peasant army to fight the Japanese imperialist, he used strategies that enabled people from Chiang’s army to…

laws to help themselves. The government was a republic but only the wealthy men got to vote.The peasants had no say in what was done.In the peasant's villages, women named Leontia and her husband Caduceus were having the argument they always had. Leontia had black hair that was frizzy and had a strong face. Also, Leontia was very skinny except for the fat belly because she was pregnant.She was a peasant so she did not get a lot of food and clean water like the rich people did.She was a brave…

the disease that was so easily spread. This caused a major increase in prices of goods that came from out of town. The shortage of laborers caused a high demand for anyone to help out. The disease caused some positive impacts for the common people, peasants, and even women. Laborers could easily find jobs because of the high demand. They could easily move from place to place if they did not like the landlords’ contracts, because they knew they would easily find another place to work. Wages…

he is done I take him down to the dining hall to eat his breakfast which consists of eggs, bread, and cooked beef. When he is finished he makes more laws and takes some away that did not work. Like the one law that he had to hand gold to all the peasants in the kingdom. When it is lunch time I…