How to Mao Keep Control of China

1 The Hundred Flowers campaign was set up by Mao the nature was to address mainly the educated classes and to allow them to comment on the government's policies. He and his government knew that the educated mainly disagreed with the policies, but thought that they could no longer deny that China had advanced since the Nationalist regime. However they were to be disappointed with the resulting torrent of criticism from the public, that not only …

…was to be a whole generation of inbred uneducated people. <Tab/>The Cultural Revolution was, overall not a complete failure, especially in Mao's eyes who thought it had correctly taught the young revolutionary experience, and had managed to overthrow anyone who opposed his idea for complete communism. However, in reality, it did cause China large problems, economically, politically and civilly, but China did manage to repair these problems fairly quickly afterwards.