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Building the People's Republic
Victory brought the harder task of transforming China. Land reform destroyed the landlord class — violently — while the CCP built a one-party state and remade society along Communist lines in a few short years.
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the one idea
why this one carries the topic.
A revolution won in the countryside by a party that was supposed to be urban, then a state that kept revolutionising itself long after it had won.
The CCP's victory in 1949 began the violent reconstruction of Chinese society through land reform that eliminated landlords and established a one-party Communist state.
what examiners catch — Students often describe land reform as purely economic redistribution without acknowledging the systematic violence and class struggle campaigns that destroyed the landlord class as a social group.
what you leave with
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Land reform redistributed land, killed landlords
One-party state consolidated rapidly
Marriage Law and social transformation
Soviet-model economic planning begun
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this conceptbuilding the people's republicThe CCP's victory in 1949 began the violent reconstruction of Chinese society through land reform that eliminated landlords and established a one-party Communist state.
sits under itwar, civil war and communist victorybecause victory must then govern
the rest of the chinese revolution
6 more, same treatment.
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mao, the long march and peasant revolutionin the appnationalists, communists and the broken alliancein the appthe cultural revolution and how revolutionary china wasin the appthe fall of the qing and a fractured republicin the appthe great leap forwardin the appwar, civil war and communist victoryin the app
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