Investigate the Maoist policies and critically explain their impact on the economic development and social change in China from 1950s to 1960s
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China since 1949. The Mao Years and Post-Mao China. *
I. The First Years of the People's Chinese Republic (PRC): 1949-1957.
a. Domestic Policy.
Mao's three proclaimed tasks were: 1. national unity; 2. social and economic change; 3. freedom from foreign interference.
The CCP set out to revolutionize the countryside south of the Yangtze river. This meant land reform and educating the peasants to support the revolution. At this time, peasants were given land. In some cases, they also killed their landlords, but this was a more general occurrence in the second, more radical wave of land reform that took place after 1949. ( It is estimated that one million were killed). In the first phase, the rich peasants were allowed to keep their land, or most of it, in order to help restore food production and avoid alienating them from the new regime. (Compare Soviet Russia under NEP, 1921-29, and Eastern Europe, 1944-48). At the same time, party committees were established in every village to help the peasants carry out the reform and maintain party control over the process.
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