Mao Long March Yanan Flashcards
Who were the 28 bolsheviks?
REturned students from sun yatsen university in moscow w/ highly orthodox ideas, aggressive land reform.
following stalins orders to take jiangxi soviet power from mao
Who was the power struggle pre long march between
mao and 28 bolsheviks
How were ccp defeated in 5th encriclement campaign?
80,000 troops
28 Bolsheviks, outsted Mao from power [house arrest 1934 - mao re-elected chair of soviet government] insisted on traditional warfare tactics- lost
Flee from gmd turns into long march
Conditions of the long march
1934-1935
100k people retreating 6000-12000 km thru mountainous terrain, rivers, dense forest
Goal to find new territory on outskirts of gmd power in the NE- Yanan
- food shortage
- bad weather
- pusued by gmd
CCP noticed:
That 50% of peasants owned no land, sought to promise them land
By 1930s CCP had 2.5 million chinese under control
War-lords were too powerful and still had their own militaries
Chiang Kai Shek was busy fighting the Japanese in Manchuria
If peasants were treated correctly, CCP could have massive support base
When was Zunyi Conference?
1935
What was Zunyi Conference
CCP politburo discussing how not to lose battles
- 28 Bolsheviks discreditted and blamed for defeat, remove from power
- Mao has full control of CCP central committee
How did Long March end?
Arrive in Yanan
Only 10- 20% of CCP forces arrive
Effects of Long March
Mao became heroic myth
- bolstered part unity
- veterans prestige
Basis for communist propaganda, triumph in face of overwhelming odds
Mao emerged as leader of CCP- shows corruption of GMD
Chiang kidnapped in 1937
- too obsessed with Mao when fighting Japanese
- bad relations with peasants, wanted to preserve class based social order
Conditions upon arrival in Yanan?
communists in Yanan 1935-45
-CCP scattered in different areas
No capital for development, but used labour instead- improved industrial technologies
Difficult rural conditions- set stage for later CCP economic theory like GLP and forced collectivization
consolidation of Mao’s rule
When was recitifcation Campaign?
1941
What was rectification campaign?
Goal: common ideological framework
Phase 1: Maoist propaganda [gave his philosophy more support] ruined relationship between Zhou En Lai and 28 B’s
Phase 2 ‘‘Cure the sickness to save the patient’’: Labelled remaining rivals dogmatists or empirists,
Political therapy: forced them to criticize each other and themselves, trialed them based on these criticisms
- Culture of saving face, brainwashing
Phase 3: Rewrote history to glorify Mao. Kang Sheng’s secret Police force extracted confessions from rivals. GMD supporters were tortured and killed.
- Other leader criticized, Kang SHeng removed but remained close to Mao
