The Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries was the first campaign of political repression launched by the People's Republic of China designed to eradicate opposition elements, especially former K
A poster promoting the campaign, 1951
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The Land Reform Movement, also known by the Chinese abbreviation Tǔgǎi, was a mass movement led by the Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong during the late phase of the Chinese Civil War during a
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…historian John King Fairbank called the upper end of "sober" estimates. It is difficult to separate killings due to land reform from killings due to the land reform movement (tugai), which occurred during the same years. As a result, most estimates below include deaths from both land reform and zhenfan: Roderick MacFarquhar…
The land reform staff publicizing the Land Reform Law to peasants in 1950
A wealthy farmer in front a Chinese Communist "people's court" in Fogang County, Guangdong Province on July 23, 1952
An example of a people's commune collective farm
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