Organisation of Communes & Abolition of Private Farming

Question 1

1. Peasants were _____ to live in communes.
   - The CCP also seized their _____.
2. What was the average size of a commune?
3. What happened to private ownership of land and livestock?

Answer 1

1. Forced.
   - Grain.
2. 5500 households.
3. Abolished.

Question 2

1. What did Mao think the mass mobilisation of people would allow?
2. Give 2 examples of items that could be produced.
3. Mao thought the pooling of resources in communes would be more _______.

Answer 2

1. Agriculture and industry to develop simultaneously.
2. Twine and rope.
3. Efficient.

Question 3

1. What did the Politburo declare communes as in August 1958?
2. By the end of 1958, ___,___ co-ops had been reorganised into __,___ communes.
3. What % of the population did the CCP claim lived in communes?

Answer 3

1. A ‘basic social unit’ of communist society.
2. 740,000…26,000.
3. 99%.