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How Did Mao Zedong Contribute To The Fate Of The Communist Party?

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Decades passed and at any point China was either in a quarrel with itself or some other nation. While not intending to do this, their country seemed to be getting weaker and weaker with each war. A situation arose in China during the 1920’s between two parties. This dispute brought out a civil war that would last until 1949. Two parties were involved. The Nationalist Party, led by Jiang Jiehsi, and the Communist Party, led by Mao Zedong. Jiang Jiehsi was raised in a middle class family and followed his values by making his party seem appealing and more beneficial towards middle class workers. His system of government, however was not attractive towards the Chinese peasants. This was the key factor in the fate of the party and China itself. The second party, the Communist Party, leaned more to the impoverished side of China. Mao believed that he could gain much more strength and popularity by stemming his party in the peasants. His reforms included literacy programs and better their food manufacturing. Mao and Jieng battled it out, but Mao’s Communist Party …show more content…

His main was not focusing or leaning towards peasants and seeking reforms to their benefit. This lessened their popularity. Most peasants and many others were on the Communist side because Mao was treating them with the respect and the fairness they had been searching for. Another, although not as apparent, was that Jieng did not aid their crumbling economy. Instead Mao took leadership and did so himself, making Jieng’s soldiers doubt his leadership and went off to join the communist party. Their popularity, specifically with the peasants, was what brought down the Nationalist Party the most, ending the war before it even started. Now that almost all of China (the Nationalists were allowed to have Taiwan) was in the hands of Mao, he needed to quickly build China to its strength and power it once

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