Suppress the Counter-Revolutionaries & Three-Antis Campaigns

Question 1

1. What 4 campaigns did Mao use to consolidate power?
2. What did the ‘Suppression of the Counter-Rev’s’ Campaign focus on?
   - Give an example.
3. What did the CCP launch in Summer 1951?
   - What was this in order to do?

Answer 1

1. Suppress the Counter-Revolutionaries Campaign
   Three-Antis Campaign.
   Five-Antis Campaign.
   Hundred Flowers Campaign.
2. Internal threats to the Chinese Revolution.
   - Bandits, members of secret societies.
3. Mass rallies in the cities.
   - Publicise campaign.

Question 2

1. How many rifles were collected in Guangdong during the campaign?
2. How many bandits and criminals were rounded up?
   - How many were executed?

Answer 2

1. 500,000.
2. 130,000.
   - 28,000.

Question 3

1. What 3 things did the Three-Antis Campaign target?
   - What 3 groups of people were targeted?
2. What did this campaign involve? (2)
   - What would happen to those found guilty?
3. What did the campaign succeed in doing?

Answer 3

1. Waste, corruption & inefficiency within bureaucracy.
   - Managers, state officials and party members.
2. Mass meetings & investigations by party committees.
   - Humiliated (at least).
3. Rooting out many corrupt practices that had been the norm in Chinese business and public life.