SFII-UF 102 Lecture Notes - Sun Yat-Sen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Lawas
25 Jul 2014
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Mao killed everyone in the original communist party (created a secret police) Stalin changed communism, from idealist system and made communism a violent dictatorship, altering communism for the world. 1920s, finally realized that they were not the most civilized nation in the world anymore. Sun yat sen was into democracy and was going to modernized china. 1946, mao attacks chiang and wins, by 1948, chiang and the american style government goes to taiwan for first ten years, mao was not a machiavellian dictator, first he ruled like. The great leap forward > he actually went backward; acted like an emperor from ancient china; made chinese to work 24 hours a day to work to industrialize. The cultural revolution > armed and trained all young people of china and told them to destroy everything from the chinese past, and destroy everything western.
