here were other problems as well. There wasn’t enough trained personnel to fill all the jobs in the government office and as the high positions in the red army, so people left over from the czarist government had to fill in. The majority of them, however, were corrupt, and that made controlling the office very hard. Then, as Lenin was about to die, he realized that the government started out in a very big hole, and the hole got bigger with time, and now, to get out of the hole, they needed to choose wisely from a restricted number of programs, and none of the programs were going to be easy routes to socialism. What happened in China was very different from Russia. Mao Tse-Tung was a hard-core Marxist and communist all his life. Over the years, he developed his own ideas from the ideas of Karl Marx and Lenin, again, taking it one step further. In 1927, he went to the hills and founded a revolutionary base area. Until 1949 he stayed there, training guerrilla forces and accumulating experience and knowledge, as well as developing new economic policies which would help the ‘new’ Chinese government be on its way to communism. Over the years, he studied the peasants’ miseries and demands, and thought of ways to make the country run more efficiently. The Bolsheviks were sent to teach and help Mao, but they really didn’t know what they were doing themselves, since Russia was disorganized at the time. However, there were some things that Mao learned from Russia. He learned a lot abut the economy quickly, things such as the 5-year plans, investments, and other economic operations. So, in that! sense, China was lucky. Unlike Russia, Mao spent many years spreading the ‘seed’ of socialism through China. He went to all the rural places and spread his ideas quickly, and in 20 years, he was sure he could win power over the nation. Peasants all over China were struggling with their landlords and moneylenders. Le...
