Monthly Archives: August 2020

Collectivization in 1950s China. By the end of 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under its leader, Mao Zedong (pre-1978 translation Mao Tse-tung), had taken full control of China.   During the many previous years of revolution, the communists gained peasant support by promising to break up the large landed estates and divide the resulting small holdings among the peasants.  However, this promise was kept and maintained very temporarily.  During the early 1950s there were so-called trials throughout China in which…..

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