The Chinese Revolution of 1949

After the Revolution, efforts at changing society were undertaken in a more methodical and all-inclusive manner. Many traditional institutions were either dismantled, prohibited, or downgraded in the effort to modernize and to bring about a new political and social attitude on the part of the people. These efforts had varying results and were of varying degrees in effectiveness. Some traditional institutions persisted in spite of Communist efforts to stamp them out, while other areas of the society were changed completely. An examination of the process indicates how the emergence of the Chinese Communist Party and Mao Zedong thought served as responses to China's problems.

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mbership in the CCP had increased to 1.2 million. Rivalry between the KMT and the CCP continued, but the CCP was succeeding in surviving the KMT military attacks. Conflict between the two for control of China was heated. The leadership of the CCP was solid, while that of the KMT was not. The victory in 1949 can be partly attributed to this fact. The victory of the CCP also reflects the effectiveness of its combination of action and ideology: The Chinese Communist Party originated as an intellectual elite, to be sure, but one that was intellectually committed to Marxism and socialism. An intellectual commitment to Marxism not only demanded a political commitment to revolutionary action but also a social commitment to the liberation of the oppressed and exploited. . . [T]he Communists emerged from a rural revolutionary movement without having abandoned their vision of a socialist future. It was this vision that was crucial in determining the social and economic policies that the victorious revolutionaries pursued (Meisner, 1986, 114). The CCP instituted changes in several areas of society. Land reform was given priority, as might be expected from a regime that had come to power with the particular support of the peasants
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