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  • Essay / Effects of the Chinese Communist Revolution - 876

    Effects of the Chinese Communist RevolutionIn 1949, the Chinese Communist Party won the civil war and established the People's Republic of China. The new communist government, led by Chairman Mao Zedong, launched the communist revolution to reform the country which had suffered from wars and social turmoil for decades. China was reborn and changed in many ways during these years of revolution, and the Communist Party also gradually consolidated its control during these years. One of the first changes of the communist revolution was the distribution of land. In 1950, just a few months after the creation of the new country, the government launched the land reform campaign. In China, for thousands of years, landowners, who made up a small part of the population, owned most of the land, and peasants, who made up a large part of the population, owned only a small part of the population. part of the land. In many cases, several peasants worked for a single owner and, although the peasants did almost all the work, they earned little money and were sometimes even exploited by the owner. The communist aimed to help poor peasants get what they deserved and save them from difficult life. However, not everyone has benefited. People were divided into different classes and the landlord class was abolished. Despite these landlords who treated peasants poorly and gained properties by exploiting others, there were good landlords who worked with peasants and earned their properties through hard work. In The Corpse Walker, former owner Zhou Shude said, “I was kind to others. I had never hurt anyone or harbored resentment towards others. However, my fellow villagers, who were once polite and respectful, had suddenly changed, as if they had all put on different clothes... middle of paper... finally, they were fought and accused by the party because of Mao's change on attitude criticism and suggestions. In the case of Wenxin and Feng, this completely changed their destiny: from students with bright futures to counter-revolutionaries with right-wing status who have to stay in rural areas for decades. The goal of the communist revolution was to achieve communism in China and therefore to help China become stronger and develop faster. However, as the campaigns were not perfectly planned and Mao's desire to centralize power gradually became stronger, the results of the revolution conflicted with the principle of the "mass line". The people's blind worship of Mao after the brainwashing during the campaigns and their extreme behaviors that were so called to defend Chairman Mao actually caused many ordinary people to experience injustice and suffer difficult lives...