1. MAO

2. How does Mao create a totalitarian state?

4. Control of Economy: Collectivization
“The people's communes are good” 1958

5. “The vegetables are green, the pumpkins big, the harvest is bountiful”
1959

6. “We sell dry, clean, neat and selected cotton to the state”
1958

7. Control of Economy: Great Leap Forward
rapidly industrialize and increase agricultural ouput
forced collectivization of peasant land
“Take steel as the key link, for a leap forward in all fields” 1958

8. “Ride the wind and cleave the waves to realize a Leap Forward in all fields” 1960

9. BUT…
The Great Leap Forward is a huge failure!
millions starve to death (maybe as high as 43 million)

10. Gov’t Terror: Purges “Anti-Rightist” Campaign Late 1950s
Critics labeled “enemies”
Reaction to 100 Flowers Bloom policy
@ 1million victims

11. Purges Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966)
Attempt to reinvent Chinese society for communism
Wants to eliminate the “Four Olds” customs, habits, thoughts, and culture
“enemies of the revolution” are killed, imprisoned, humiliated, etc.

12. Gov’t Terror: Prison Camps!
Known as the laogai system (“reform through labor”)
Many sent to “reeducation” camps
maybe over 10,000,000 victims

13. IndoctrinatingYouth The Red Guard
to arrest, beat, kill, humiliate threats to Mao
generally made up of young people, like college students and teenagers

14. Gov’t Control and Censorship of Media
Quotations From Chairman Mao Zeding (aka “Little Red Book”)

16. Control of Information

17. Visual Propaganda and Art

18. “Chairman Mao meets with model workers”
1964

19. “With regard to the great teacher Chairman Mao, cherish the word 'Loyalty'. With regard to the great Mao Zedong Thought, vigorously stress the word 'Usefullness‘”

20. “The reddest, reddest, red sun in our heart, Chairman Mao, and us together”

21. Kids love Mao!

22. “Warmly love chairman Mao”
1955

23. Mao is the sun! Mao is everything!!

26. His image is everywhere!!!

34. MAO is Preserved!!!