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Consolidation of the Communist State (1949-1969) |
Edgar Snow (Pro-CCP) "Suddenly, on the southern shore, comrades began to shout with joy. ‘Long live the Red Army! Long live the Revolution!’ For the enemy was withdrawing in flight." |
Jung Chang (Anti-Mao) “Mao claimed later that when he was a boy in Shaoshan he had been stirred by concern for poor peasants. There is no evidence for this. He said he had been influenced by a certain P’ang, who had been arrested and beheaded after leading a local peasant revolt, but an exhaustive search by Party historians for this hero has failed to turn up any trace of him. There is no sign that Mao derived from his peasant roots any social concerns or sense of injustice. Mao evinced no particular sympathy for peasants.” |
Transition to Socialism |
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