Deng Xiaoping: The Second Communist Leader

Through out all of history we have seen so many heroes and villains all over the world. But one place in particular was in China, with a leader who goes by the name of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was a well-known communist leader in china who actually lead the Chinese Communist Party. He is one of the most important people/historical figures in history. At first he was helping China at the beginning of his ruling, nut then his actions had cause China to completely fall and breakout into violence and complete chaos!! Changing the views of his people because whatever good he had done did not matter anymore from his great down fall. During his ruling though some believed that Mao

A communist leader, Mao Zedong led the Chinese Communist party while, Jiang Jieshi was the leader of a Nationalist Party. Also, Mao believed in Marx’s policy of Socialism. Communists won control of China; won the loyalty and support of the peasants by using propaganda. He led the Long March, where the communists ran away from the Nationalists for 6,000 miles across the

Mao Zedong was a military leader, a soldier, a principle of the Chinese Marxist theorists, and the man who led his nations cultural revolution. There are so many ways that Mao seems to be the perfect man the man who has his life together and he was a very good self promoter. He is what you could say make China 's communism a big deal during the Cold War. The Chinese revolution was placed around 4 years after the war and you could say that Mao had a big impact in that. Being that he did lead the revolution, he was the man who kind of impacted a part of

“Today he uses sweet words and honeyed talk to those he entices; tomorrow he puts them to death for fabricated crimes.” (Heuston, Kimberley. Mao Zedong. Frontispace ). Mao Zedong is the person of the 20th Century because he changed the country of China for better and worse. Through his life, he is willing to stop anyone from getting in his way in his quest to rule and change China. He made Communism the ruling party in the country, forming the People's Republic of China. Chairman Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” policies and actions modernized the country in less than half a century. A major part of his life is dedicated to killing the people who stand in his way.

Mao came into power the same as any other leader would in a dynasty, and that was by overthrowing the previous leader. When Mao came into power, he began implementing new reforms and spread propaganda to gain support and prevent a rebellion. What he did differently than in past dynasties was he targeted the working middle class to prevent a revolt against him. He oppressed people and targeted individuals labeled enemies, isolating them in reeducation. In Mao’s movements to change Chinese culture and thought, early reforms, transition to collective farming, the Great leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution, he did all of the corrupt things that the leader of a dynasty would do. He tried to force people to follow his way of thinking and he isolated those who were dangerous to him and would be able to take his power. Mao was power hungry and he impoverished the proletariat, just like all other dynastic leaders. However, he was smart enough to recognize how he could have complete control, strip people of their civil rights, and still stay in

China has always been renowned for being successful in the domains of science and arts, however in previous decades, China has been ravaged by famines, civil discomfort and foreign outsourcing. China was consumed by this injustice until well after the Second World War when Mao Zedong introduced Communism adapted from the U.S.S.R, and created an autocratic socialist system which imposes firm constraints upon the Chinese social, political and economic system. It wasn't until the 1980's China's following leader Deng Xiaoping who focused focused on developing China into a

China has been a communist country since the communist revolution took place in 1949, since then China has been ruled by the dictator Mao Tse-Tung. However the Chinese dictator died in September 1976, he was hailed abroad as one of the worlds’ great leaders. Certainly one of the more impressive aspects of the Chinese communist government, has been the willingness of the people to protest against it (3, pg. 4).

Mao Zedong was a military leader who led his country’s Cultural Revolution. Zedong’s revolution started in 1966, in China. He started his revolution with his new ideas. His ideas included The Great Leap Forward, struggle sessions, and The Red Guards. All these new ideas were to make China a communist country. These failed attempts made Zedong’s ideas unsuccessful for China.

He was also the leader of the Communist Party of China from 1981 to 1987. Hu Yaobang's rise to power was organized by Deng Xiaoping. In 1980 Hu became Party Secretary General, and was elected to the powerful Politburo Standing Committee (committee consisting of the top leadership of the CPC). In 1981, Hu became CPC Chairman, but helped abolish the position of Party chairman in 1982, as part of a larger attempt to distance China from Maoist politics (political theory derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong). By 1982, Hu was the second most powerful person in China, after

Over the course of Mao’s leadership from 1949 until his death in 1976 we can see the significance of his leadership and what made him a good and bad leader. Mao had made some very good decisions to help certain groups but also made some very bad decisions that paid the price, in some cases killing millions. Due to the social and economic changes that then followed by a significant increase in the population and weak leadership that led to rebellions from 1911 that saw the end of 3500years of rule by the Chinese imperial dynasties. The social and economic chaos then led to the formation of two political parties. The CCP, led by Mao Zedong and the GMD led by Chiang Kai Shek. Mao and his party defeated the GMD in 1949 bringing Mao into power. Mao’s main goal was to turn China into a pure communist country. Over the course of Mao’s leadership he did this by making significant social, economic and political changes to the Chinese way of life. However due to his poor leadership and the faults that he made it caused people to oppose him and get in the way of his goal. That is why in 1966 Mao decided to assert his beliefs through a series of decisions, which came to be known as the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution was a hard time for many people throughout China as Mao enforced many things upon them to achieve his aim of removing capitalism. Mao used the youth of China to be that

China's transition from the leadership under the iron fist of Mao Zedong to the more liberal Deng Xiao Ping gave the People's Republic a gradual increase in economic freedom while maintaining political stability. During Mao's regime, the country focused on bolstering and serving the community, while subsequently encumbering individual growth and prosperity. Deng advocated a more capitalist economic ideology, which established China as an economic force in the global community while endowing its citizens with more liberties and luxuries than previously granted.

Mao Zedong’s rise to political power as chairmen of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), was made possible by the failings of the GouMinDan (GMD). After the fall of the Qing dynasty, in 1911, China fell into disarray where warlords had power, rather than a national government. Sun Yat-sen began a nationalist group whose militaristic tacts allowed them to unite china under a singular party, the GMD. Despite many revolutionary promises very little positive changes were made by Chiang Kai-shek, who became leader of the GMD in 1925.However because of the party’s lack of political knowledge and poor socio-economic abilities the GMD’s rule was a failure. Mao used this to project his own ideology on China in the form of Maoism. Mao’s ability to take advantage of China’s bad situation allowed him to receive the support he required in order to rise to power.

Deng Xiaoping has been the individual with the most impact on China since the 1970’s. Along with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, he is looked at as one of the key figures in evolution of communism in China . Deng Xiaoping will be remembered as a national hero, but this was not always the case. The real story of Deng includes the fact that, on more than one occasion, his peers ostracized him. During his lifetime he has been a part of the many changes in China throughout the twentieth century. He was by Mao Zedong’s side through all of the struggles of the Chinese Communist Party; battling with Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomindang over

Communism is a system of government, a political ideology that rejects private ownership and promotes a classless, stateless society based on common ownership of all property and the means of production, where by all work is shared and all proceeds are commonly owned. Communism is practised in China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Cuba. However most of the world’s communist governments have been disbanded since the end of World War II. Soon after the Japanese surrendered at the end of World War II, Communist forces began a war against the Kuomintang in China. The Communists gradually gained control of the country and on the 1st October, 1949, Mao Zedong announced the victory of the Communist party and the establishment of the People's

Deng Xiaoping felt that the quickest way to build a better China was to improve living conditions immediately, to give people the level of morale they need for further development. At that time, he realized that China’s economic need to reform; he found very effective ways to reform the China’s economic. His goals were to open up the China’s market to the outside world,