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"China was able to survive its crisis in communism (after 1976) because it went for economic reforms and not political reforms." To what extent is this accurate?
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Name: Kenneth Teo CT Group: 1A13A Tutor: Mr Edmund Kwok Course Title: History 9067/3 1) "China was able to survive its crisis in communism (after 1976) because it went for economic reforms and not political reforms." To what extent is this accurate? In the years before 1976, many unwise policies were carried out which brought China into a crisis of communism, or a state in which communism was threatened. The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution were specifically the main causes of the crisis of communism and the mastermind between these two movements, Mao Zedong, can be held responsible for their initiation. The Great Leap Forward was a great economic failure. Years of famine and intense suffering came about as a result of this skewed project of Mao's. Consequently, he was sidelined in the CCP. The direct consequence of this was the Cultural Revolution, as he sought to regain his lost prestige...
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