Land Reform Movement
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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
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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Classicide
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Classicide is a concept proposed by sociologist Michael Mann to describe the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of a social class through persecution and violence. Although it
Land Reform Movement
…of the movement's ideological principles in rural China. Victims were targeted based on their social class rather than their ethnicity; the neologism classicide is used to describe the killings. Class-motivated mass murder continued almost throughout the 30 years of social and economic transformation in Maoist…
A Soviet parade between 1929 and 1934 under the banners "We will liquidate the kulaks as a class" and "All to the struggle against the wreckers of agriculture"
Bolsheviks in 1918 in Petrograd under a propaganda poster saying "Death to the bourgeoisie and its lapdogs – Long live the Red Terror!!"