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. […]
During the Holocaust, one saw the true racial essence of National Socialism. To kill the enemies of the Reich, was at the core of Nazi ideology. […]
In 1941, the Third Reich planned for the systematic mass murder of Europe’s Jews. That was the ‘final solution’ to the Jewish question. […]
In 1945, the United States sent Ambassador Hurley to Yan’an in China to facilitate talks about creating a new coalition government. Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek had agreed to attend the talks. […]
In 1945, as Nationalists in China persisted with their urban reconversion program, a deadly contest over the control of Manchuria, the heartland of Japan’s military-industrial empire in Asia, was developing. […]
The communists, led by Mao Zedong, were able to take over all cities previously held by the Nationalists, and with the departure of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, they officially chose Beijing as their capital. […]
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