25 min

Building Mao's police state 1949 Explaining History

    • Society & Culture

Initially, Mao proceeded with caution against the social enemies of the Communist Party, using the tools of state repression left behind by Chiang Kai Shek's Kuomintang. Assigning a new legal social class status to all Chinese citizens saw many later condemned to forced labour, imprisonment
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Initially, Mao proceeded with caution against the social enemies of the Communist Party, using the tools of state repression left behind by Chiang Kai Shek's Kuomintang. Assigning a new legal social class status to all Chinese citizens saw many later condemned to forced labour, imprisonment
Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/explaininghistory.



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

25 min

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