Mao Zedong predicted that hundreds of millions of Chinese peasants would join the communist revolutionary movement. This prediction was based on his belief in the revolutionary potential of the rural population, which he saw as a powerful force for social change. Mao's strategy focused on mobilizing and organizing the peasants to overthrow the existing social and political order in China.
The Chinese Communist Leader under the name of Mao Zedong lured in Chinese peasants in order to strengthen the Red Army.
The Chinese focused on organizing peasants. The Soviets focused on organizing factory workers.
Chinese peasants
The Chinese focused on organizing peasants. The Soviets focused on organizing factory workers.
Peasants.
The communists provided the peasants living in rural areas with weapons.
The Chinese focused on organizing peasants. The Soviets focused on organizing factory workers.
Chinese communist revolutionaries faced three primary choices regarding the growing peasant movement: first, they could align closely with the peasants to harness their support for revolutionary goals; second, they could seek to moderate their demands to maintain broader political alliances; or third, they might attempt to suppress or control the movement if it threatened the party's authority. Ultimately, the communists chose to embrace and mobilize the peasant movement, recognizing it as vital for their strategy in overthrowing the ruling regime and establishing a socialist state. This decision significantly shaped the course of the Chinese Revolution.
Chinese peasants
Peasants actually played very little in the way of a role with either revolution. The February Revolution was largely a matter of what people living in urban centers did, and the October Revolution was a coup d'etat by the Bolsheviks.
Cultural Revolution
The Communist Chinese suppressed a grassroots freedom movement.