... attack, each piece of propaganda, and each speech of motivation dispensed by Mao brought the change that was necessary for China to recover. Despite the highly controversial and aggressive adverse party Mao's efforts proved successful. Speaking personally the sheer magnitude of leadership that is responsible for a total social uprising is more than commendable- the skills and character necessary to accomplish ... how a complete ideologically divided country will unify beneath one guiding force- Mao Zedong. Also identifying to what extent was Mao's leadership directly correlated to the ...

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... is an analysis of the Cultural Revolution typical of the earlier historiographical phases. Along similar lines, and in the Marxist Tradition, Leftist writer and co-founder of Worker's World Party, Sam Marcy, interprets the Cultural Revolution as an inevitable social progression, a struggle against revisionism, and a triumph of Revolutionary progress over Political Reactionaries . His writings on the Cultural ... Revolution's instigation. By allowing for the partialities existing from the time a work was published, and those of the historian, and comparing a variety of sources, a happy me...

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... the abdication of the Qing emperor in return for his own appointment as president of the republic. Also in 1912, a new revolutionary party was formed. This party, called the Guomindang, believed in parliamentary democracy and the principle of electing the officials. Because Yuan disagreed with GMD's ideas, he ... pursued. This was because the landlords and the warlords were cruelly taking advantage of the people, making their life miserable. Democracy, which he never reached, was no issue for Chiang, due to lack of basics in such a political leadership. He never gave the people a right ...

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... leader. While working in the Peking University library under Li Dazhao, Mao became a member of the CCP. His political ideology was formed in the 1930's when he rose to party leadership. Mao believed that China's Marxist revolution would be victorious for the peasant class. Mao's political platform included rousing the nation's masses to create a united front including the peasantry ... and fortify China's southern, eastern, northern, and northwestern borders, he reinforced the Chinese examination system and consciencesally worked to appeal to the Chinese. With his attempts, Manchu rule re...

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... mainland, Taiwan began its ascent from tyranny to democracy. The factors which helped lead towards this democratization are very straightforward: First, Taiwan had reached a socioeconomic level that fulfilled the precondition for democracy; e.g., high per-capita income Second the lack of landlords and big capitalists and the cross ... March 18, 2000, Taiwan held its second free presidential elections, which resulted in Chen Shui-bian, a pro-independence candidate from the Democratic Progressive Party . This ended over fifty years of Nationalist rule in Taiwan. Although this is promising...

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... his agricultural policies, but also at his personal ideology and his economical policy. A very curious situation appeared that intellectuals inside and outside the party were sent to factories, communes, mines, and public works projects for manual labor in order to transform their stubbornly reactionary thinking. Instead, ... only five or ten years could be accomplished simply by the sustaining mobilization of masses. During 1950s and 1960s, the personality cult around Mao reached grotesque heights: "Mao was an infallible semi-divine being". Mao was compared to the sun and people believe...

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