Topic 10: Authoritarian States
Mao - Emergence
"Weak political systems were the most significant factor in the emergence of authoritarian states." Discuss with reference to 2 states. (May 2022)
Vocab
Tanggu Truce
He–Umezu Agreement
Long March
Zunyi Conference
National Salvation Association
Xian Incident
2nd United Front
New 4th Army Incident
Hundred Regiments Battle
Strongpoint Offensive
Blue Shirts
Fanshen
Yanan Years
Outline Land Law
Work Teams
"speak bitterness" and "establishing ties"
“homecoming regiments”
double fanshen
28 Bolsheviks
Ningdu Conference
Futian Incident
Rectification Campaigns
Great Helmsman
Helpful Resources
Primary - Radek, Karl; Alexander V. Pantsov (ed.); Richard Abraham, Steven I. Levine (trans.), Karl Radek on China: Documents from the Former Secret Soviet Archives, Brill, 2021
Primary - “China, Soviet Union: Treaty of Friendship and Alliance.” The American Journal of International Law 40, no. 2 (1946): 51–63.
Primary - Tse-Tung, Mao. Mao Tse-Tung On Guerrilla Warfare, Hauraki Publishing, 2015.
Primary - Tse-Tung, Mao, Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung: Vol. IV: The Revolutionary Civil War Period, 1945-49
Primary - Tse-Tung, Mao, Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung: Vol. VI, 1919-46
Primary - Tse-Tung, Mao, Other Primary Sources
Primary - Office of the Historian, Harry S. Truman Administration (1945–1952), United States State Department
Primary - Jiang Jai Shek, China's Destiny & Chinese Economic Theory, 1943
Primary - Liu Shaoqi, How to Be a Good Communist, Panther Pub., 1967
Primary - Hinton, William, Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village, Monthly Review Press, 1966
Primary - Telegrams between Mao and Stalin from the Soviet Archives(1949)
Primary - Saich, Tony & Yang, Benjamin, The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party: Documents and Analysis, M.E. Sharpe, 1995
Primary - Snow, Helen Foster, The Chinese Communists: Sketches and Autobiographies of the Old Guard. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwoods Publishing Company. 1972.
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Arif Dirlik. “The Ideological Foundations of the New Life Movement: A Study in Counterrevolution.” The Journal of Asian Studies 34, no. 4 (1975): 945–80.
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Pantsov, Alexander, The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution, 1919–1927, University of Hawaii Press, 2000
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Youtube - China A Century of Revolution 1 China In Revolution 1911 1949, PBS
Mao - Consolidation & Maintainence of Power
Evaluate the importance of charismatic leadership to the maintenance of power in two authoritarian states. (May 2023)
Vocab
Five Year Plan
Great Leap Forward
"backyard" steel furnaces
Agrarian Reform Law
communes
Socialist Education Campaign
Group of 5
Third Front
‘In Agriculture, Learn from Dazhai’
National People’s Congress
"Gao Gang Affair
Hundred Flowers Campaign
Anti-Rightist Movement
Peng Dehuai
Cultural Revolution
People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
Lin Biao
Jiang Qing (Madame Mao)
anti-Lin Baio anti-Confucius campaign
Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries campaign
Three-Anti Campaign & Five-Anti Campaign
Struggle Sessions
Red August
Red Guards
Four Olds’
Learn from Lei Feng"
"Little Red Book,"
Campaign to Resist America and Aid Korea
snail incident
United Action Committee
February Countercurrent”
Wuhan Incident
Campaign to Purify Class Ranks
Helpful Resources
Primary - Westad, Odd Arne, Chen Jian et al, 77 Conversations: Between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina, Cold War International History Project, 1998
Primary - Tse-Tung, Mao, Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung: Vol. V: The Period of the Socialist Revolution and Socialist Reconstruction, 1949-1957
Primary - Hu, Angang. Mao and the Cultural Revolution (Volume 3) : Battling for China's Future. Honolulu, HI: Enrich Professional Publishing (S) Private, Limited, 2017.
Primary - Hua Guofeng, Continue the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to the End: A Study of Volume V of the Selected Works of Mao Tsetung, Foreign Languages Press, 1977
Primary - Collection of Various Propaganda Posters
Primary - Buckley Ebrey, Patricia, Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, 2nd Ed, Free Press, 2009
Primary - Deng Xiaoping, Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping (1938-1965), vol. 1, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011
Primary - Letters of the Hundred Flowers Campaign (1956-57)
Primary - Rittenberg, Sidney, The Man Who Stayed Behind, Duke University Press, 2001
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Barnouin, Barbara; Yu Changgen, Chinese Foreign Policy During the Cultural Revolution, Routledge, 2013
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Su, Yang. Collective Killings in Rural China During the Cultural Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011
Teiwes, Frederick, Politics at Mao's Court: Gao Gang and Party Factionalism in the Early 1950s, Routledge, 2016
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Youtube - The Human Cost Of Mao's 'Great Leap Forward' | Mao's Great Famine | Timeline
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Youtube - Chinese Revolution
Youtube - Mao Zedong - Chairman Mao Documentary
Mao - Domestic Policies
Evaluate the impact of social and cultural policies in one authoritarian state(May 2022)
Vocab
Learn from Xiaojinzhua
Common Programme
Religious Affairs Bureau
Islamic Association of China
Christian Manifesto
Three Selfs movement
Shadian incident
All-China Women’s Federation
work points
Iron Girls
Marriage Law
Five Changes
17-Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet
Dalai Lama
Panchen Rinpoche
Ngabo
Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR)
Revolutionary Committee
Spiritual Atomic Bomb
Nyemo Revolt
Helpful Resources
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Primary - Zhou Xun, Forgotten Voices of Mao’s Great Famine, 1958-1962: An Oral History, Yale University Press, 2013
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Primary - Thurston, Anne, The noodle maker of Kalimpong, Random House India, 2015
Primary - The Political Program of the People's Republic, 1949
Primary - Mao Speech Laushan Conference, 1959
Primary - Xueping, Zhong, et al, Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era, Rutgers University Press, 2001
Primary - Yang, Rae, Spider Eaters : A Memoir, University of California Press, 1997
Primary - Loh, Robert, Escape From Red China, Muriwai Books, 2017
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Youtube - Michelangelo Antonioni - Chung Kuo - Cina, 1972
List & Youtube links - 100 Films to Understand China: The Mao Years
Castro - Emergence of Authoritarian State
Compare and contrast the importance of propaganda to the emergence of two authoritarian states (May 2018)
Vocab
Platt Amendment (1903)
Sugar Acts (1951 & 1956)
Moncada Programme (1953)
Sierra Manifesto (1957)
Guajiros
Granma Expedition (1956)
Fidelistas
General Batitsta
1952 Coup
BRAC
Los Tigres
Moncada Barracks
Movimiento 26 de Julio
Guerilla warfare
“History will absolve me”
Che Guevara
El Cubano Libre
Radio Rebelde
Manifesto of the Five (1957)
Miami Pact (1957)
Pact of Caracus (1958)
Helpful Resources
Primary - Castro, Fidel. History Will Absolve. Me Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, La Habana, Cuba. 1975
Primary - Matthews, Herbert "Cuban Rebel is Visited in Hideout" New York Times (1857-Current file); Feb 24, 1957; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2000)
Clayfield, Anna. "Perpetuating a Fighting Spirit," in The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution. University of Florida Press, 2019.
Kapcia, Antoni. "Introduction: the Problem with Fidel-centrism" Leadership in the Cuban Revolution : The Unseen Story. London: Zed Books, 2014.
Márquez-Sterling, Manuel. Cuba 1952-1959: The True Story of Castro's Rise to Power. Klieopatria Digital Press, 2009
Thomas, Hugh, Cuba: A History, Penguin, 2010
Tudoroiu, Theodor. “Defining the Revolutionary Totalitarian Personality: The Parallel Lives of Adolf Hitler and Fidel Castro.” Comparative Sociology, vol. 13, no. 3, 2014, pp. 383–409.
Castro - Consolidation & Mainentance
¨The use of force was the most important method used to maintain power in authoritarian states.¨ Discuss with reference to two authoritarian states. (May 2019)
Vocab
Provisional Government
Manuel Urrutia
Office of the Revolutionary Plans and Coordination (ORPC)
Communist Party of Cuba
1976 Constitution
slide towards communism
La Microfaccion
Mariel Boatlift 1980
Bay of Pigs (1961)
Operation Mongoose (1961)
Escambray rebels
Sugar-for-Oil (1960)
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
“Socialismo o muerte, ”“Yo soy la revolucion,” Yanquis
New Man
Socialist emulation
Venceremos
Revolutionary Tribunals
Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR)
Military Units in Aid and Production (UMAP)
¨To the wall!”
Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (RAF)
National Revolutionary Militia (MNR)
Hubert Matos
Causa 1 (1989
Helpful Resources
Primary - Castro, Fidel & Ramonet, Ignacio, My Life: A Spoken Autobiography. New York Scribner, 2007.
Clayfield, Anna. "Consolidating the Revolution, 1959-1968" in The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution. University of Florida Press, 2019
Dominguez, Jorge. ¨The Secrets of Castro´s Staying Power¨ Foreign Affairs (1993): 97-107
Kapcia, Antoni. "Taking Stock and Finding Direction 1959-62" Leadership in the Cuban Revolution : The Unseen Story. London: Zed Books, 2014.
Montaner, Carlos Alberto, and Ignacio Ramonet. "The FP Debate: Was Fidel Good for Cuba?" Foreign Policy, no. 158 (2007): 56-64. Accessed January 19, 2021.
Quinn, Kate. "Cuban Historiography in the 1960s: Revisionists, Revolutionaries and the Nationalist Past." Bulletin of Latin American Research 26, no. 3 (2007): 378-98.
Thomas, Hugh, Cuba: A History, Penguin, 2010
Werlau, Maria C., ‘Political Repression in Castro’s Cuba: Policies, Institutions and Victims,’ in Hollander, Paul (ed.) Political Violence: Belief, Behavior, and Legitimation, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. 144–154
Castro - Domestic Policies
Compare and Contrast the impact of domestic policies of 2 authoritarian states, each chosen from a different region.
Vocab
Agrarian Reform Law (1959)
Year of 10 Million (1970)
mass mobilization
Council of Ministers
Resolution 425 and Law Against Laziness
Special Period (1991)
Cuban Camels
Federation of Cuban Women
Criculos infantiles
Literacy Campaign (1960)
Maternity Law (1974)
Family Law (1975)
Code for Children, Youth and Family (1978)
Venceremos
4th Battle / Battle to end Racial Discrimination
Public Ostenation Law (1938)
Helpful Resources
Balfour, Sebastian, Castro (Profiles in Power Series), 1995
Cabrera Arús, María. "The Material Promise of Socialist Modernity: Fashion and Domestic Space in the 1970s " In The Revolution from Within, 290. Duke University Press, 2019.
Fuente, Alejandro De, A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba (Envisioning Cuba), 2001
Fuente, Alejandro De. "La Ventolera." In The Revolution from Within, 290. Duke University Press, 2019.
Miller, Nicola. "A Revolutionary Modernity: The Cultural Policy of the Cuban Revolution." Journal of Latin American Studies 40, no. 4 (2008): 675-96.
Roberg, Jeffrey, and Kuttruff, Alyson. "Cuba: Ideological Success or Ideological Failure?" Human Rights Quarterly 29, no. 3 (2007): 779-95
Roca, Sergio, Socialist Cuba: Past Interpretations And Future Challenges, Routledge, 2019
Thomas, Hugh, Cuba: A History, Penguin, 2010
Chomsky, Aviva; Carr, Barry; Smorkaloff, Pamela María, The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics, Duke University Press Books, 2004
Hitler - Emergence
“The role of the leader was the most significant method for the emergence of an authoritarian state.” Discuss with reference to one authoritarian state.
Vocab
National Opposition (1929)
Grand Coalition
Bruning
Hunger Chancellor
von Papen
Boheman corporal
Schleicher
Harzburg Agreement
25 Point Programme
Mein Kampf
Fuhrerprinzip
Bewegung
Strasser
Enabling Act
SA
Goebbels
Intentionalist
Structuralist
Helpful Resources
Evans, Richard, The Coming of the Third Reich, The Penguin Press;Penguin Group, 2009
James, Harold, "Economic Reasons for the Collapse of the Weimar Republic." in Ian Kershaw (ed) Weimar - Why did German democracy fail? (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990)
Hiden, John, Republican and Fascist Germany: Themes and Variations in the History of Weimar and the Third Reich, 1918-1945, Routledge, 2020
Housden, Martyn, Hitler: Biography of a Revolutionary? 2000
Kershaw, Ian, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris, Penguin Books, Limited (UK), 2001
Lonne, Karl-Egon "Germany" in Tom Buchanan and Martin Conway (eds) Political Catholicism in Europe, 1918–1965 (Oxford: Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011)
McElligott, Anthony, Rethinking the Weimar Republic: Authority and Authoritarianism, 1916-1936, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
Roseman, Mark, "National Socialism and Modernisation" in Richard Bessel. (ed), Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: comparisons and contrasts, (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1996)Stogbaur, Christian, "The radicalisation of the German electorate: Swinging to the Right and the Left in thetwilight of the Weimar Republic" European Review of Economic History, Vol. 5, No. 2, German Cliometrics (AUGUST2001), pp. 251-280
Turner, Henry Ashby, Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933, Book Sales, 2003
Turner, Henry Ashby, , German Big Business And The Rise Of Hitler, Oxford University Press, 1985
Winkler, Heinrich, "German Society, Hitler and the Illusion of Restoration 1930-33" Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 11, No. 4, Special Issue: Theories of Fascism(Oct., 1976), pp. 1-16
Hitler - Consolidation & Maintenance
Examine the methods used by one authoritarian leader in the maintenance and consolidation of power.
Vocab
Gleichschaltung
Law Against the Establishment of Parties
German Labour Front
Concordot
People’s Court
Social Democrats (SPD)
Red Shock Troops
Sopade
Immorality Trials
Bishop von Galen
Heinrich Himmler
RHSA
Gestapo
SS
Night of the Long Knives (1934 )
Nuremburg Laws (1935)
Kristallnacht (1938)
Joseph Goebbels
Hitler Myth
Reich Press Law (1933)
People’s Receiver
Entartete
Swing Youth
“Anti-War” Group
1938 Putsch
Abwehr
July Bomb Plot
White Rose
Helpful Resources
Broszat, Martin, The Hitler State: The Foundation And Development Of The Internal Structure Of The Third Reich, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2013
Bullock, Andy, Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives, Fontana Press, 1991
Donald, Moira & Rees, Tim, Reinterpreting Revolution in Twentieth-century Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001
Housden, Martyn, Resistance and Conformity in the Third Reich, Routledge, 1997
Kallis, Aristotle, Nazi Propaganda and the Second World War, 2006
Kershaw, Ian, The 'Hitler myth': image and reality in the Third Reich, Oxford University Press, 1987
Kershaw, Ian, Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis, Penguin Books, Limited (UK), 2001
Noakes, Jeremy, "The Nazi Revolution" in Moira Donald & Tim Rees. (eds), Reinterpreting revolution in twentieth-century Europe, (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2001)
Lepsius, M. Rainer. “The Model of Charismatic Leadership and Its Applicability to the Rule of Adolf Hitler.” Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions: Charisma and Fascism in Interwar Europe, vol. 7, no. 2, 2006, pp. 175–190.
Overy, Richard, The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, Penguin Books, Limited (UK), 2005
Pauley, Bruce, Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century, Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 2014
Payne, Stanley, Fascism, Comparison and Definition, University of Wisconsin Press, 1980
Payne, Stanley, A History of Fascism, 1914-1945, UCL Press Ltd., 1995
Peukert, Detlev J.K.; Deveson, Richard, Inside Nazi Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life, Yale University Press, Year: 1989
Roche, Helen, An Analysis of Ian Kershaw's The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich, Routledge, 2017
Hitler - Domestic Policies
Evaluate the impact of domestic policies on one authoritarian state
Vocab
New Plan (1934)
Hjalmar Schacht
State Labour Service
Farm Law (1933)
Strength Through Joy (KdF) (1933)
4 Year Plan
Herman Goering
Autarky
Ersatz
Albert Speer
Kinder, Kuche, Kirche
Law of encouragement of marriage (1936)
Mother´s Cross
Tracht
NSBO
Law for protection of marriage, family and motherhood (1943)
Lebensborn
Eva Braun
Volksgemeinschaft
Nuremburg Laws (1935)
Kristallnacht (1938)
Judenrein (1943)
Paragraph 175
Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion
Hitler Youth
League of German Maidens
Naitonal Socialist Teacher´s League
Helpful Resources
Dukes, Paul & Hiden, John, "Towards an Historical Comparison of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia in the 1930s" New Zealand Slavonic Journal, No. 1 (1979), pp. 45-77.
Gellately, Robert "Social Outsiders and the Consolidation of Hitler's Dictatorship, 1933–1939" in Neil Gregor (ed) Nazism, War and Genocide: New Perspectives on the History of the Third Reich (Liverpool: Liverpool Scholarship Online, 2014)
Gotto, Bernhard & Steber, Martina "Volksgemeinschaft: Writing the Social History of the Nazi Regime" in Visions of Community in Nazi Germany: Social Engineering and Private Lives (Oxford: Oxford Scholarship Online, 2014)
Pine, Lisa, Nazi Family Policy, 1933-1945, Berg, 1997
Pine, Lisa, Education in Nazi Germany, Bloomsbury, 2011
Pine, Lisa, Life and Times in Nazi Germany, Bloomsbury, 2016
Pine, Lisa, Hitler’s "National Community:" Society and Culture in Nazi Germany, Bloomsbury, 2017