Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used to be said of Red China that it was repeating, stage by stage, Russia's Communist development a third of a century later. But the evidence coming out of China is that Mao Tse-tung is engaged in a more drastic experiment than Stalin or Khrushchev ever tried. The official name for it is "the people's communes" movement...
...establishment of the communes has produced "vacillation" among the "upper-middle peasants." Stalin's forced collectivization of Russian agriculture in the 19305-3 program less radical than the establishment of the Chinese communes-was achieved only at the cost of more than 10 million Russian lives. Whether Mao can succeed without resistance on a similar scale in China remains to be seen. The success or failure of Mao's big gamble will obviously influence the audacity or caution of Peking's foreign policy diversions...
Already Peking ideologists are predicting that when the communes come into full flower, six years or so from now, China will have achieved true Communism, as Russia has not-thus furthering Chairman Mao's bid for ideological pre-eminence in the Communist world...
...occasions when they have been given a free choice, these ordinary Chinese chose exile in Chiang's Nationalist China over home in Mao's New China. On such evidence, Chiang bases his hopes...
SUMMER had broken, and the slim cedars along Quemoy's roadways bent before the first buffeting gusts of autumn. In the fields, the silver, feathery heads of mao-tsao, a grain used for fuel and fodder, swayed like the plumes of medieval knights. At night the moon was almost full, and the pearl and coral-colored bluffs loomed like phantoms above the beaches, pounded by a foamy sea. In other times it was the loveliest of seasons, it was the loveliest of sights. But this year autumn on Quemoy was a nightmare...