Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Importance of Yenan Communist
Settlement
- stayed at yenan for 13 years
- indoctrinated followers with
marxist-leninist ideas
- wanted CCP to be party of the
ppl
- taught followers to live life of
peasants
- army to fight in defence of the
ppl
- focused followers on leading
and supporting peasantry
- GROWTH in SUPPORT
- Support grew
- visitors came out of curiosity, inc. some
Western visitors
- some came to be part of revolution that was proclaiming
- lost a lot of numbers in the Long March
- 100,000 in 1937
- grew to 1.2 mil in 1945
- WIDER COVERAGE
- Journalists came to write reports on what was happening at Yenan
- meant that atrocities of the KMT could be told to a wider audience
- the book "Red Star Over China" brought Mao's work to the interest of an international audience
- generated interest from abroad