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Coalitions of the Weak

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Mao's Co-Coalitions of the Weak Strategy

Soas i think a ma maniso may be unlike stalin, i do believe that mau did want to rule in a coalition for a while. He cultivated a bunch of weak officials just in case. And it turned out that he needed these weak officials. So then the full coalition of the weak strategy came into play. These people all deferred to him. Just through balancing o different factions against one another, he was able to firmly stay in power prior to the greatly fort and then he pushed fo very radical economic policies which led to the deaths of 30 to 50 million chinese people. But ultimately, what happened was linba himself accumulated too much power, especially in the military, so

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