Broad+ideology+Mao+and+Stalin

-For a single party state leader, ideology is used as a springboard into politics. -It usually involves a platform of dramatic domestic reforms and prior to implementation, contradicts most of what the current government is doing. -Without the radical ideology, a to-be single party state leader would not be able to gain the support of the masses, especially important for radical socialists.
 * 1.** What broad ideology means to a single party state leader

//Stalinism// -"Stalinism has been described as being synonymous with totalitarianism, or a tyrannical regime. The term has been used to describe regimes that fight political dissent through violence, imprisonment, and killings" -"Stalinism is an interpretation of their ideas, and a certain political regime claiming to apply those ideas in ways fitting the changing needs of society, as with the transition from "socialism at a snail's pace" in the mid-twenties to the rapid industrialization of the Five Year Plans."
 * 2.** How broad ideology applies to Mr. Commissar Stalin and Mr. Chairman Mao

//Maoism// -"The basic tenets of Maoism include revolutionary struggle of the vast majority of people against the exploiting classes and their state structures, termed a People's War. Usually involving peasants, its military strategies have involved guerrilla war tactics focused on surrounding the cities from the countryside, with a heavy emphasis on political transformation through the mass involvement of the lower classes of society."

-"Maoism departs from conventional European-inspired Marxism in that its focus is on the agrarian countryside, rather than the industrial urban forces. This is known as Agrarian Socialism. Maoism broke with the state capitalist framework of the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev and dismisses it as modern revisionism, a traditional pejorative term among communists referring to those who fight for capitalism in the name of socialism."

-Mao believed that he was the successor of Stalin in the worldwide communist revolution and thus had a nearly identical ideology to Stalin. -Similarities include Five Year Plans, large amounts of land reform, large amounts of exports-to the extent that the home front was starved of food.
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