Mao's China, 1949-1958
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- Tradition in China gave new rulers “Mandate from Heaven”
- Democratic Centralism - Total obedience to the leader (Leninist model)
- The First Plan ( 5 year plan) - Some aid from USSR, Emphasis on heavy industry
- Like Russia there was a form of collectivization called APC’s (Agricultural Producer Co-Operatives)