The Power of Success The Long March of Mao Zedong and the Salt March by Gandhi have many similarities yet many differences. Both historic marches were similar in that they were started by men who wanted to change their country and went on to have great influence and power in their country. Both marches were similar in that they involved many people and were unconventional ways of seeking power and change. However‚ the marches were different because one was violent and the other was peaceful.
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Mao zedong was a communist dictator in china. Mao was a very bad man that did some very bad things in his lifetime. Mao lived from 1893 to 1976. Mao had done bad things that people should never do. Mao had been involved with military political and personal problems. When Mao was just a normal guy that went crazy with power ontop of having a wife he had many communist followers. Mao was a communist leader that changed china for the worse. He influenced their hearts and minds and led little kids into
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of its government. This was in large part due to the prosperity that it was able to bring its people. A Chinese man‚ Mao Zedong was able to analyze the success of the Soviet Union and attempted to implement its form of government‚ communism‚ in China. The communist revolution that occurred leading to the creation of the Soviet Union is known as the bolshevik revolution.
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The Communist Revolution happened because Mao Zedong wanted it to happen. He wanted to run china all by himself. He wanted the people of china to be under his control. He believed that china was headed in a wrong direction. He needed to do something in order to get them back on track. Zedong received a lot of criticism‚ due his beliefs. China had undergoing a lot of damage due to World War 2. The only way for him do this was to join a group. The group was called the Communist Party of China. It
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Did Mao Zedong really save China? This we will never know because you could argue for it in so many ways. Mao supporters say that he revolutionized Chinese industry and tripled China’s GDP since he took office. Non-Mao supporters say he killed tens of millions of his own citizens. Which one is true? They both are to be honest‚ there is enough evidence for both. None the less‚ Mao Zedong‚ also written as Mao Tse-tung‚ revolutionized China‚ he changed it from a poor rurally based agricultural country
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Gulsah Sarpoglu Ms. Nicola Robinson English 12 March 2015 How did Mao Zedong control and lead millions even though his policies failed and killed millions? Mao Zedong was the leader‚ spokesperson and symbol of the Communist revolution in China. He is qualified as the greatest mass murderer in world history‚ killing 45 million in four years. Anyone who opposed him was punished by execution‚ imprisonment or forced famine but anyhow his authority was rarely questioned. Even today he is is treated as
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Mao Zedong’s ideas varied between flexible pragmatism and utopian visions‚ exemplified in the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. As Professor Nutter says‚ Mao established a regime that was based upon his own personality. Ruthless and ambitious‚ Mao turned China into a world military power and created a cult of personality‚ forcing the distribution of his image and his "Little Red Book" (a collection of political maxims) upon the Chinese people. As far as the world was concerned for
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century it is often customary to try and label the conflict either Left Wing or Right Wing. However‚ in the cases of Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong‚ neither Left nor Right Wing seems an appropriate label for what their revolutions contained for China. The difference between democratic and anti-democratic is more fitting for the two Chinese revolutionaries. Both Sun and Mao advocated different methods of development to achieve the same goals but caused drastically different results. Sun Yat-sen‚ who was
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Mao Zedong was a bad leader for China. While Mao was in power‚ many people lost their lives due to the Red Guards. The Red Guards were enforcing Mao’s policies because they thought that was the correct thing to do. The Red Guards assaulted people who held different opinions regarding the change in the culture of China. This resulted in people losing their lives ( Schwartz‚ 5). For example‚ when the peasants challenged Mao’s opinion about what they were told to do during the Great Leap Forward they
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The political atmosphere after the death of Mao Zedong can be characterized as tense and filled by reforms. It is arguable that after Mao’s death China was left a fragile country with no central figure of authority. A new authority had to take over the leadership position. This was mainly aimed to restore order as well as work on the promises of the previous leadership. Mao’s government had promised a lot of change and social re-organization in China. It is also noticeable that the government worked
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