Mao Zedong During The Great Leap Forward

Name: Course: Tutor: Date: Mao Zedong during the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution in China Mao Zedong, China’s Communist party leader in 1966 launched a program that was intended to make sure that he reasserted his authority as a leader in China. Mao believed that the Chinese communist leaders were taking China in the wrong direction and it was necessary to come up with revolutionary tactics to handle the issue. He led China during the Great Leap forward during which shirt term positive effects on the development of Agriculture were observed. Violence was experienced in different parts of China during the Cultural Revolution and there was a violation of culture in China. In the paper, the argument presented is that China as a nation made losses during the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap forward under the leadership of Mao Zedong. However, it should be noted that the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward had its positive impacts in the development of China. When you weigh the negative impacts and the positive impacts, the negative impacts were more as compared to the positive impacts. In the first and second paragraph. Negative aspects will be discussed while in the last paragraph positive aspects will be mentioned. When he came up with the Cultural Revolution tactic, Mao wanted to make sure that he would get rid of all the people who opposed him. In the document that contains the reason for the formation of the Proletarian Cultural Revolution, it states, “Although
 the
 bourgeoisie
 has
 been
 overthrown, 
 it
 is
 still
 trying
 to
 use
 the
 old
 ideas, 
 culture, 
 and
 customs, 
 and
habits
 of
 the
exploiting
 classes
 to
 corrupt
 the
masses, 
 capture
 their
 minds, 
 and
 endeavor
 to
 stage
 a
 comeback.
 The
 proletariat
must
 do
 just
 the
 opposite” (CITATION Par \p "p. 2" \l 1033 (Party Central Committee p. 2). One of the strategies that were used as part of achieving the objective was the closure of all the schools so that the youth would be recruited to serve as "red guards". Most of the leaders in China were harassed by young people and most of them were killed during the period. The movement escalated later and the young people violated their culture and they attacked the elderly in the society. Mao did all this to make sure that he had gained authority by turning the young people against the older people in the society. As such, a large number of elderly people were attacked by the youth and killed d...