People's History of Ideas Podcast · Matthew Rothwell
Mao gets Kicked from Party Leadership, and Organizes a Land Reform in Western Fujian
December 7, 2024·24 min·2 clips
Mao requests to leave the Front Committee while warning about incorrect ideology based on peasants and petty bourgeoisie.
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Mao's demotion becomes a study in whether defeat is best measured by punishment or by what followed.
Mao's contest with Zhu De over party control of the Red Army reaches a clear political defeat. After finishing its close reading of Mao's June 14, 1929 letter to Lin Biao, the episode moves to the June 22 Seventh Congress, where Mao was heavily criticized, lost the larger…
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You can hear Mao finish his case, lose the front committee secretaryship, then head toward Western Fujian work and land reform.
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