- What was the importance of the Jiangxi Soviet?
- How did the Jiangxi Soviet thrust Mao into CCP leader?
- What was the Autumn Harvest Uprising?
- How did Mao contribute to the modern notion of guerrilla warfare?
- Discuss why the Jiangxi Soviet was considered a state within the state?
- Explain, “The Chinese soviet regime is a state based on the democratic dictatorship of the workers and peasants.”
- How did the Jiangxi Soviet Republic afford the Communists the first opportunity to test their ability to govern?
- Explain the Futian incident.
- What was the dark side during the period of Mao’s time in Jiangxi?
10 . What do we consider the Encirclement Campaigns? Explain their effects
11. Examine the causes and effects of the Long March.
12. Discuss its significance
13 What role did Mao’s propaganda play during the Long March?
14.Find two values and two limitations:
“The Long March is a manifesto. It has proclaimed to the world that the Red Army is an army of heroes, while the imperialists and their dogs are impotent. It has proclaimed their utter failure to encircle, pursue, obstruct and intercept us. The Long March is also a propaganda force. It has announced to some 200 million people in eleven provinces that the road of the Red Army is their only road to liberation. Without the Long March, how could the broad masses have learned so quickly about the existence of the great truth which the Red Army embodies? The Long March is also a seeding-machine. In the eleven provinces it has sown many seeds which will sprout, leaf, blossom, and bear fruit, and will yield a harvest in the future.”
15. Why was Yan’an the crucible of the communist revolution?
16. What was Mao Zedong thought?
17. Discuss how Mao worked and lived during the period of Yan’an.
18. What were the relations between the Red Army and the pesants?
19. Explain While some of the growth in party membership was driven by coercion,“the fact remains that Yan’an marked a major propaganda victory for the Chinese Communists”.
20. What is Rectification? Political correctness?How did it cement into party’s main ideology?
21. Explain how the outsiders perceived Mao and how he won this propaganda war?
22. How did the pour-parler end for KMT and CCP?