Authoritarian and Single Party States: Mao: Methods

Journal article examining the development on Mao's revolutionary thinking.

Like many intellectuals of the May 4th era, Mao dabbled in various “isms”, including anarchism, social Darwinism, liberalism, and democratic socialism, before becoming converted to revolutionary Marxism

JSTOR article. Examines Mao's policies towards the peasants as a road to power.

Mao went to visit rural areas in his home province of Hunan in order to investigate the peasant movement there. An

As demonstrated by the following quotations, Mao believed that violence and support from the masses were necessary for the achievement of a peaceful communist order.

It was in the context of fighting with the numerically superior and better-equipped Guomindang forces that Mao developed and applied his theories of guerrilla warfare

dealing with opposition became an important priority in the first years of the People’s Republic.

The purpose and meaning of the Hundred Flowers campaign have been intensely debated by historians and academics.

Mao Zedong encouraged critics of his government—and then betrayed them just when their advice might have prevented a calamity

a political and ideological purge of the CCP. It was focused mainly on the Yan’an Soviet and ran from 1941 to 1944. Rectification entrenched Mao Zedong as the leader and ideological figurehead of the party.

t first, when the Red Army was still at an infant stage, it numbered no more than a few thousand tattered soldiers, only one-fifth of whom possessed rifles

200 pg thesis. use the table of contents to focus your reading!

Purge of the Communist Party that establish Mao as leader.

Archived article from The Guardian

On October 1st 1949, Mao addressed a mass rally in Beijing, where he declared victory in the Civil War and the birth of a new nation: the People’s Republic of China (PRC).