2) The Chinese communist party

• National self-reliance 


  Mao described the revolt as the 'national revolution', by doing so he invited the bourgeoisie to unite against the enemy of the nation with the peasants.
• The role of the peasants as a revolutionary class


  Mao argued that peasants in China were the only individuals who could form a revolution. Mao believed that due to the exploitation of the landlords, they had the potential to become a revolutionary force. Mao believed the only way for them to succeed was by getting revolutionary leadership from the communist party. This led to the eventual communist victory.
• The ideology and policies of the CCP

  Mao Zedong thought

  These were ideas that were taken from the Marxist theory but had Chinese conditions added to them. Some ideas were his very own.

  • The importance of the peasants as a revolutionary class
  • national self-reliance
  • continuing revolution
  • class struggle
  • learning from the people
  • mass mobilisation
  • a national revolution
• What campaign did Mao launch in 1942?


  Yan'an Rectification campaign
• What was the purpose of the Yan'an Rectification campaign?


  To purge remaining critics and doubters in the party
• What humiliating activity were participants forced to do during the Yan'an Rectification campaign?


  Make self-criticisms at compulsory 'struggling meetings'
• What additional requirement was imposed on participants of the Yan'an Rectification campaign?


  They had to read prescribed books
• How was the Yan'an Rectification campaign enforced?


  With torture and beatings by a CCP secret police force
• What ideology became the official ideology of the party after the Yan'an Rectification campaign?


  Mao Zedong thought
• What cultural phenomenon arose as a result of Mao's leadership and the Long March of 1934?


  A personality cult of Mao
• How was Mao depicted due to the Long March of 1934?


  As a hero
• What song was released that idolized Mao?


  'The East is red'
• What were the key components of the Yan'an Rectification campaign?


  • Purge of critics and doubters
  • Compulsory 'struggling meetings'
  • Humiliating self-criticisms
  • Reading prescribed books
  • Enforcement through torture and beatings
  • Establishment of Mao Zedong thought as official ideology
• Mao in 1936 was the chairman of what?

  • The Chairman of the Politburo
  • the Chairman of the CCP's military council
• Long March


  This was between 1934-35, the CCP escaped from Jiangxi and established a new base in Yan'an.