Minorities+Mao+and+Stalin


 * __Minorities__**


 * Mao**:

__Minorities__: Anyone who wasn't Han Chinese was considered a minority. There are about 55 minority groups, these are the most important: - Tibetans - Uighurs - Hui Muslims - Mongols

__Treatment of Minorities__: - The CCP and political elite believe that they were more capable of judging for the minorities' best interest. - autonomous regions-- give the groups political representation, but very limited. Many of the people who lead these regions act to be part of these ethnic groups, but usually aren't-- more loyal to the PRC During Cultural Revolution: (minorities devastated) ( - Over 6,000 monasteries destroyed in Tibet - Mongols in Inner - Mongolia (autonomous region) were persecuted (790,000), maimed (120,000), or killed (22,000) during ruthless witch hunt to find the separatist group of Inner-Mongolia's People's Party-- had been disbanded years before - Religious books and works of Uighurs and Hui Muslim were burned - Language schools destroyed around the borders of China - Massacre of the Hui Muslims by the People's Liberation Army, called Shadian Incident-- claimed 1,600 lives in 1975

- People's Republic of China still controls Tibet




 * Stalin**:

Stalin and his government people said that · Also, there were no “minorities or majorities”… This is completely untrue—during this time, the Russians, the majority with 50% of the population, strengthened their Soviet nationalism.

In no other country have so many peoples lived as peacefully with one another as in the Soviet Union. In no other state have the peoples been able to develop their own cultures so successfully, and nowhere have the peoples been able to preserve their languages as in the Soviet Union. “The Great Friendship”

Not the case at all.

__Minorities__: - Jews - Ukrainians - Soviet peasants (Kulaks) - Chechens - "enemies of the state" (anyone who was a political threat)

__Treatment__: - Great Terror (1936-9) - Labor camps (Gulag) - Deportation (Kulaks to Siberia, Central Asia, many died during this process, 700,000-60 million killed, Chechens deported as well in addition to other ethnicities) - show trials, executions (Animal Farm-esque) - Tried autonomous regions, but didn't work out

- Mao follows in Stalin's footsteps again-- this time starting with independence, and then retreating to autonomy - Both use purges and killing of minority opposition - Both are trying to industrialize, therefore they kill off anyone who is in the way of the process - Great Terror and Cultural Revolution are very different, but had similar results for the minorities in China and USSR
 * Comparison**