Struggle sessions
What Struggle sessions means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Method in which workers were encouraged to denounce their bosses, leading to mass suicides and the state confiscation of private businesses.
Sessions in which citizens participated to confess ideological errors as part of the CCP's thought control.
Topics that use Struggle sessions
- Option 32: Key topic 1: Establishing communist rule, 1945–59 - 3 Consolidating the CCP’s hold on power, 1951–52 (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option 32: Key topic 4: Life in Mao’s China, 1949–76 - 1 Communist control (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Laogai
- Censorship
- Counter-revolutionaries
- Cult of Mao
- Five Antis
- Ideological conformity
- Little Red Book
- Mass mobilisation
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