Propaganda
Two ways Mao used propaganda to consolidate authority (according to Ms Mills)
Spread ideology
get rid of opposition
Name of the campaign that killed around one million landlords
Anti-landlord campaign
The name of this economic plan launched in 1958 would allow the Chinese to break ties with Soviets by a huge communal endeavor of Chinese people
The Great Leap Forward
The number of propagandists hired by Mao
1.5 million
100 flowers
The name of the most popular propaganda tool that spouted Mao's teachings and ideology
The Little Red Book
The name of the Newspaper that was widely circulated in the PRC
The People's Daily
During the cultural revolution, these were units of young people trained by, head of secret police to act as terror squads--their slogan was ‘it is right to rebel’, and they were unhindered by police, free to attack people at will and destroy property
The Red Guards
Maoism is distinct from the USSR communism for these reasons
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Three mediums, apart from the newspaper, that Mao reached the public through propaganda
Posters, Television and Film or Radio
terror campaign perpetrated by the PLA to exterminate all those whose social background made them potential enemies of Mao and the communist state.
Cleansing the ranks campaign
These are known as the four olds and were attacked during the cultural revolution
Old thoughts
Old habits
Old culture
Old customs
Ran a number of propaganda campaigns for Mao
Lin Biao
The term means re-education through labour, came to be used to describe the extensive prison-camp system which operated under Mao. The average number of prisoners held in the camps each year during Mao's time was 10 million.
Laogai
This campaign was launched in 1967-1972 to try and quell the Red Guards
Go up to the mountains and down to the villages campaign 1967-1972