... from their husbands and other men, in the same way they freed the peasants form the landlords and the moneylenders. The support of peasants and the intellectuals Peasants, making up the majority of the Chinese population, were facing increasingly harsh conditions. They had to struggle on a limited crop producing area and with a growing population. Also inflation and Great Depression (1929) made their lives unbearable, due to the constantly increasing taxes, interest rates and high ... land rentals. Although Mao, the communist leader, did not initially believe that peasants could lead th...

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