POLI 422 Chapter : Recovery and Consolidation
29 Jan 2012
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Crises faced by the ccp following the chinese civil war were similar to those faced by the bolsheviks in 1917. However, the response of the ccp was significantly different. Where bolsheviks had attempted war communism , a radical leap towards full communism, the ccp moved more cautiously and moderately, continuing the strategy of broad class coalitions and limiting class struggle. Perhaps the most sweeping and successful land reform in history. Finished off the dying landlord class, without precipitating a production crisis. This direct confrontation also broke the psychological barrier that peasants had against their previous masters. The economic results of the land reform was near (but not complete) egalitarianism, along with an increase in production. However, the latter may also have been a result of the end of conflict and war, and the natural boom that results from such circumstances.
