Professor Andrews
World History 2
April 2018
Chapter 21: Revolution,Socialism, and Global Conflict
- In China, as in other communist countries, art served the state and communist party.
- This wasn't more apparent than in propaganda posters, found everywhere schools, homes, etc.
- The artists were under the strict control of the communist party officials
- They had to use their skills to depict party leaders
- Realities behind each image was much different
- Communist leaders noticed that the enemies weren't defeated
- Some of the enemies were killed, imprisoned, subjected to the endless self criticism sessions or sent to rural areas to learn from (peasants).
- Leaders sought to move China more rapidly to genuine communism by eliminating all private properties, to show social equality and shared living.
- Efforts to involve peasants in iron and steel production through "backyard furnaces" proved failure.
- Metal productions in primitive facilities was of poor quality
- Peasants were encouraged to give their belonging made of iron to the furnaces.
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