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Assignment:
In 1921, a group met in Shanghai to organize the Chinese Communist Party. Mao Zedong (MOW dzuh-dahng), an assistant librarian at Beijing University, was among its founders. Later he would become China's greatest revolutionary leader.
Mao Zedong had already begun to develop his own brand of communism. Lenin had based his Marxist revolution on his organization in Russia's cities. Mao envisioned a different setting. He believed he could bring revolution to a rural country where the peasants could be the true revolutionaries. He argued his point passionately in 1927:
1. What was the main difference between Chinese communism and Soviet communism?
Read the following source, and answer the next four questions
"The force of the peasantry is like that of the raging winds, and driving rain. It is rapidly increasing in violence. No force can stand in its way. The peasantry will tear apart all nets which bind it, and hasten along the road to liberation. They will bury beneath them all forces of imperialism, militarism, corrupt officialdom, village bosses and evil gentry" Mao Zedong, Quoted in, "Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao."
2. What is Mao's message?
A. ?The peasants are like the weather; unpredictable.
B. ?The peasantry has to overcome the weather to defeat the ruling class
C. ?China needs to be more imperialistic, and militaristic.
D. ?The peasantry is unstoppable.
3. According to Mao, how difficult will it be for the peasantry to defeat the ruling class?
A. ?Easy
B. ?Not too hard
C. ?Hard
D. ?Really hard
4. What did Mao say that led you to your choice in #3