HIST 11B Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Liu Shaoqi, Natural Disaster, Deng Xiaoping
Document Summary
First 5 year plan achieved dramatic increase in industrial production across a broad range of sectors. Increased production brought material benefits, average standard of living in shanghai was better in 1950 than 1930. Emerged from internal confclit within the party about how fast reform should be implemented and what kind of econ china should have. Stalin to khrushrev transition and fate of communist parties in eastern europe exacerbated internal tensions. Mao invites intellectuals to criticize party and china. Authors and scholars published highly critical and astonishingly frank articles about ccp. Wang meng"s the new arrival at the organization department - satire of the new bureaucracy, later labeled a rightist. In response to hundred flowers, mao does an about-face. Backs off from notion that public debate is a good thing. June - people"s daily published an article about detecting rightists - intellectuals who dared to speak out and criticize the party. Mao begins to develop a cult of personality.
