Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear them tell it last week, Mao Tse-tung was stepping serenely down from the most tedious of his five jobs, and Nikita Khrushchev was proclaiming some of the greatest victories in Soviet agricultural history...
Incentives of Fear. In China too, the boss blamed those below. Mao was also suffering from a desperate agricultural imbalance. He set out audaciously to do two tasks at once-to create an industrial structure from scratch while at the same time boosting farm output to feed an increasing population. To achieve a radical increase in farm products, he did not propose to introduce Khrushchev's costly peasant incentives. Instead, Mao has substituted Communism's cheapest incentives-fear and control...
...pell-mell herding of millions into communes was threatening to produce a resistance that might cause an even less ambitious program to founder. So Mao and his colleagues were compelled to slow up. But they have yet found no other way to achieve their headlong ambitions...
...months ago Peking boasted that true Communism would be achieved in as little as "three to six years." Last week the Chinese Reds sang a different tune: it might take "15 or 20 years" to do the job. And in the midst of these signs of strain, Red Boss Mao Tse-tung stepped down from the prestigious but not crucial position of head of state, which he has held ever since 1949. He remained as party chairman-the key job in Communist China...
These decisions were made at Wuchang in central China, where every prominent Communist in the nation, save one,* gathered for two weeks of intensive and secret discussion. The news of Mao's stepping down as chairman of the People's Republic of China was confided by the Foreign Ministry to trusted outside diplomats (not invited: the British, the Dutch, the Yugoslavs) after Nationalist China-which says it has an agent inside the party councils-first spread the word. A week passed before China's 650 million-people were told the news...