... was a great organizer and had much experience in communist politics. While he worked agreeably for 20 years with Chairman Mao Zedong in common cause for the great Chinese proletarian revolution in the 1960s, Liu certainly had potential to become Mao's successor. However, in Mao's eyes Liu Shaoqi was too passive, consistently trying to mediate conflicts, rather than fighting through them. The differences ... in their political thought and approaches ultimately led to Liu's fall and denunciation as a "renegade, hidden traitor, and scab." Mao Zedong was a proud, melodramatic man. His imagin...

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... , such as Russia and China and many historic events of these nations. An example include China's Great Leap Forward (1958-1961), led by the Communist Party of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of this economic and social campaign to rapidly transform the country's agrarian economy into a communist society through immense industrialization8 agriculture and collectivization9. Private ownerships were abolished, ... that has not been put into reality yet and based on the Chinese people's economical circumstances will not be successful. Reasons include the Japanese invasions causing the nation'...

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... realizing that the old Confucius ways were no longer helping with the ever growing problems of china, decided that modernization was the only answer. The Chinese communists under their leader Mao truly desired for the revival of their nation. "Passivity must be replaced by productive energy, and personal loyalty must be diverted from family to state to create one citizenry out ... of a collectivity of kinships." These were the words of Mao Zedong, who believed that the people should act in the favor of the communist party as a whole, above personal advantages and interests. He created h...

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