History GCSE
Mao Zedong's leadership and authority
What Mao Zedong's leadership and authority means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Mao bypassed cautious party members and ordered a rapid acceleration into higher-level Agricultural Producers' Cooperatives.
Topics that use Mao Zedong's leadership and authority
- Option 32: Key topic 2: Economic policy, 1949–65 - 1 Early changes in agriculture, 1949–57 (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Agrarian Reform Law
- Agricultural cooperation
- Economic planning and industrialisation
- Landlordism
- Mutual Aid Teams (MATs)
- Redistribution
- Speak bitterness meetings
- State control and coercion
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