PSCI 2012 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mao Zedong, Mahatma Gandhi, Bicameralism
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Great leap forward = 1958 1963 china increased efforts to industrialize/modernize/ socialize, people"s communes established, resulted in economic slow down and one of history"s worst famines (30 million deaths) People"s communes = collection of villages where the land was communally owned and operated, intended to be and were self sufficient. Cultural revolution = 1966-1976 mao tried to increase communism even more, tried to rid china of historical ideology of monarchy and impose communism, tried to change what society thought about communism. Caste system = technically illegal but becoming very political, loose correlation to skin color, becoming less relevant in urban areas but worse in rural areas, Law on salt = 1930, thousands of people march to the sea and make their own salt, goals. = to gain moral high ground and national sympathy, and have so many people participate in it that it would be impossible for the british to arrest everyone.
