China’s intellectuals employed subtle and indirect ways to criticize Chairman Mao. Carefully disguised works of political criticism, parody, and satire appeared in the Chinese mass media in various forms. […]
Chairman Mao’s absolutist views led to attacks on writers, artists, and philosophers. He turned his wrath upon China’s educational system as well, and severely criticized the “erroneous methods” being used to educate China’s children. […]
‘Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong’ was a collection of Mao’s pithiest precepts, aphorisms, and homilies collated by Lin Biao. It was meant to revive Mao’s personality cult among the army and China’s young population. […]
While Mao believed that the biggest problems facing the Chinese people were capitalism and class struggle, Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping thought that the failures of the Great Leap had led to demoralization and corruption across the country. […]
In September 1962, Mao launched a counter-offensive against creeping revisionism in China by introducing the Socialist Education movement. […]
When Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping dismantled the Great Leap Forward, Mao launched a blistering attack on “modern revisionism”. At the party convocation in 1962, Mao and Liu went head to head to defend and justify their points. […]
Despite clear evidence that free-riders were undermining the effectiveness of China’s collective farms, Mao steadfastly denied that there was any such problem. […]
Where the mutual aid in China had been largely successful in fostering an attitude of shared responsibility and welfare, the results of cooperative farming were more mixed. […]
Under the guidance of Soviet advisors, and Mao’s leadership, China’s urban economy underwent a two-stage transition to socialism. […]
With Hitler committing suicide, the Third Reich ceased to exist on May 2, 1945. It brought an end to a global catastrophe in which nearly 55 million people lost their lives. […]
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