Communist Govt And Control

Question 1

What is the CCP

Answer 1

Chinese Communist Party

Question 2

What did the CCP do?

Answer 2

Coordinated the govt.

Question 3

How many members did the CCP have by 1950 (one year after Mao rose to power)?

Answer 3

5.8 million!

Question 4

What did the CCP do for Govt?

Answer 4

• set economic targets
• controlled education
• prison camps

Question 5

Penguin Dehuai

Answer 5

• minister for defence
• commander in chief of the PLA

Question 6

What was the role of party CADRES?

Answer 6

Helped enforce party policies:
- controlled schools
- legal systems
- monitored PLA + civil service
- monitored Dawei work units

Question 7

What was a Danwei?

Answer 7

WORK UNIT
- all workers belong to one
- organise workers, controlled rations, housing, travel and marriage permits

Question 8

Examples of two mass organisations in china:

Answer 8

• all china federation of democratic youth
• all china federation of women

Question 9

All china federation of women

Answer 9

Mobilised women in support of regimes campaigns on issues such as birth control and divorce rights.

Question 10

CPPCC

Answer 10

Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference:
- Communist party organises meeting in Beijing in Sept 1949

Question 11

What did the CPPCC do?

Answer 11

• appointed new ministers in the new government (Central People’s government)
• created the Common Programme - temporary constitution
• acted as the legislature before the Common Programme was established

Question 12

what did the Common Programme state?

Answer 12

• gender equality rights
• educational opportunity
• protection of religious beliefs
• emphasised leadership to the CCP
• police and PLA have the right to crush opponents to communism
• made Mao head of state

Question 13

Name of the Chinese government

Answer 13

CPG -Central People’s government

Question 14

Who was the CPPCC controlled by?

Answer 14

The politburo

Question 15

Structure of the politburo

Answer 15

• 14 members
• key decisions made by the STANDING COMMITTEE
• 5 members including Chairman Mao, Zhou Enlai (premier of the PRC from 1949), Liu Shaoqi (Vice chairman of the CCP and President of the PRC from 1959)

Question 16

Why was bureaucracy needed in the CCP?

Answer 16

• to help establish new regime, and stretch control over china
• to introduce Land Reform, centrally planned economy, run the cities
• state officials 1949 - 72000 ——> 1959 - 7.9 million

Question 17

The importance of the PLA:

Answer 17

• ‘all political power grows out of the barrel of a gun’
• rounds up bandits and gangs - increases popularity of CCP
• attacked Xinjiang and Buddhist Tibet to spread influence
• chased remaining nationalists to Taiwan
• rebuilt infrastructure (mass mobilisation)

Question 18

Propaganda and the PLA

Answer 18

• Korean War
• stories of model soldiers, sacrifice, discipline etc
• 800,000 new recruits a year

Question 19

How was Mao dominant within government?

Answer 19

• leader of CCP
• head of state
• civil war leader and winner
• Mao Zedong thought became the Guiding principle of the Central People’s Government

Question 20

Democratic Centralism in China:

Answer 20

Democratic because:
- local villages and towns elect representatives
- reps travel to regional congresses
- regional reps elected at regional congresses and so on
- then highest reps would represent all claims at the Centre - Beijing

BUT - no chance to vote for different political parties