POL SCI 143A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Maoism, Liu Shaoqi, Nikita Khrushchev
29 Sep 2017
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Cultural revolution as a giant classroom teaching new values/attitudes. 100 flowers is the first precedent for calling people to speak out without guidelines. Great leap forward (glf) as precedent for launching big, multi-task movement. Sino-soviet dispute as origin of diagnosis of socialist revisionism. Goal was to increase production and move country towards more socialism. Mao wanted to step back to prepare for his succession. After glf fails, split between 2 front permits differences to emerge in implementation. Even if people weren"t trying to oppose him, but just trying to deal with problems of the country not directly in his way, he considered them . Remold china so deeply that it could never change back in order to ensure the survival of . Became leader of chinese communist resistance under japanese occupation. Went to soviet union in the 1920s. 1959 : became chief of state, heir apparent to mao. Chinese people have turned away from revolution in the hearts.
