GVPT 280 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 10: Deng Xiaoping, Work Unit, Nomenklatura
28 Nov 2018
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Context: after world war ii, china began a campaign of modernization involving nationalizing industry, collectivizing agriculture, and central planning, china"s first major break from the soviet model was the great leap forward, during which. China was reorganized into self-contained communes that would serve all basic socioeconomic functions: the great leap forward lacked clear directives and organizations, leading to a drop in economic and agricultural production, which led to disorder, famine, and death. In 1989, students protested for democracy and reform at tiananmen square, but the protests were violently suppressed on june 4. In the decades since tiananmen, china has combined market reforms with increasing political repression. In the past, the ccp has claimed that all legitimate social interests fall under its domain, so civil society did not officially exist: while implementing market reforms, the ccp has created mass organizations called.
