Building the People's Republic: Interactive timeline of the campaigns the Chinese Communist Party used to consolidate power from 1949 to 1953, across political, economic and social lanes

Taking power took a war; holding it took a campaign for every class

After October 1949 the CCP ran a new state, a land revolution and a foreign war at the same time, then turned on intellectuals, cadres and business owners in turn. Move the year forward from 1949 to 1953 and watch which campaign opens first, how long each one runs, and who it targets.

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Know This
By 1953 the CCP had used land reform, the Korean War and the anti campaigns to leave no social group standing outside the party.