Growth of Communist Movement in China

Following the victory of the Communist rebels in China in 1949, the government of China was reconstituted as the People's Republic of China under the leadership of Mao Tsetung. The rural peasantry scattered throughout the many Chinese provinces appears to have been an important element of the Communist victory, hence a key to the structure of postrevolutionary society. The victory of 1949, then, was the outgrowth of nearly 25 years of political struggle and careful political planning. The longterm connection of Mao with the peasantry has been noted by a number of commentators. Initially an urban revolutionary, Mao "grasped the peasants' revolutionary possibilities" (Solomon, 1971, p. 191) in the mid1920s. Solomon quotes Mao's view of the central role of the peasantry in revolutionary theory:

Formerly I had not fully realized the degree of class

struggle among the peasantry, but after the May 30

[1925] Incident, and during the great wave of

political activity which followed it, the Hunanese

peasantry became very militant. I left my home, where

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arty figured out that peasants were the key to social change in China, it mobilized all efforts to see that China's peasantry became decisive in revolution. Unfortunately for the peasants, who were steeped in tradition, the 1949 revolution also involved the wholesale throwing out of Confucian tradition and the replacement of it by communist party ideology. This was to take several forms until Mao's death in 1976. References Alitto, G. S. (1976). Rural reconstruction during the nanking decade: Confucian collectivism in Shantung. China Quarterly. 66: 213246. Aubert, C., Cheng, Y., and Leung, K. (1982). Spontaneous and Instigated Mutual aid in rural China: The communist intervention, 194344. Annals: Economie, Societie, Civilisations. 37: 407433. Landers, R.K. (1982, Summer). Chinese utopias. The Wilson Quarterly. 6: 378. Rice, E. E. (1972). Mao's Way. Berkeley: University of California Press. Solomon, R. H. (1971). Mao's revolution and the chinese political culture. Berkeley: University of California Press. After 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sought to make a wholesale transformation of the country. It would be socialist, mo
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