History of Everything: Maos Madness and The Great Leap Forward
History of Everything
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The History of the Communist Party in China
The old systems of how things were managed in the more feudal society, simply these were not going to cut it. The government needed more measures that would be able to serve as mechanisms by which the state could control everything from food rations to housing and marriage. This is what you'd be identified as. And then you'd be issued a registration card and assigned to something called a than way or a work unit. So enemies of the state started being identified, enemies of their revolution.
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