Mao Zedong

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he then went to a secondaryschool , and later graduated from the first provincial school in Chang-Sha (McHenry 1992).
Mayo’s goals were formed in the matrix of the May Fourth Period. Along with many of the young Chinese of his generation he was concerned with how to maintain China’s integrity in a time when the world was dominated by the great powers and how to use for his own purpose the knowledge and ideas which had led to western superiority. He wished at the same time to preserve select portions of China’s tradition. He sought to promote national resurgence and cultural transformation (Schram 1994).
Mayo’s aim was to purify the revolution, what he really wanted was to regain control over the party and purge his political rivals. To this end, he set fourth a decade of savagery and chaos. "Bad elements" were beaten to death, no one knew who would be next as friends and fellow employees turned on each other in vicious denunciations and "criticism sessions" (Poole ...

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his time only the greatly abandoned Russian revolution of 1905. He had no faith at all in the ability of the average citizen to change his or her own fate. Linin wanted disciplined action under precise guidance of a revolutionary elite to seize powerful control and drag Russia into the 20th century. Mao’s approach was largely in harmony with Linin’s position. He gleaned from Linin not only how to produce revolution, but also how to become a modernizing autocrat (Schram 1994).
Mao Zedong founded his strategy on the belief that the revolutionary capacity of human beings relied not so much on their role in the productive process as on the depth of exploitation they endured. He also ...

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