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Decree advances Latinization of scripts for peoples using Arabic writing

📅 7 August 1929

The campaign to replace Arabic-derived scripts with Latin alphabets was framed as literacy reform and modernization. It also reorganized cultural institutions and later enabled further...

Central Committee sets timetable for mass collectivization

📅 5 January 1930

The resolution accelerated collectivization by region and established the administrative timetable for dismantling peasant farming. Officials translated central targets into local campaigns under...

Central Committee directs correction of collectivization distortions

📅 14 March 1930

The party ordered officials to reverse some coercive practices and blamed lower-level cadres. Many peasants left collective farms, while the underlying campaign resumed after the temporary retreat.

Party dissolves independent literary and artistic associations

📅 23 April 1932

The decree replaced competing creative groups with centralized unions. It narrowed organizational autonomy and set the institutional basis for socialist realism, while cultural workers continued to...

Central Committee and Sovnarkom halt mass operations and troikas

📅 17 November 1938

The decree ended the main mass operations and condemned “violations” by security officials. It did not end political repression; it shifted its procedures and helped the leadership control the...

The Lushan Conference reviews the Great Leap Forward

📅 2 July 1959

Senior leaders met to discuss economic conditions and the Great Leap. Peng Dehuai’s criticism of exaggerated claims and rural hardship was treated as a political challenge, and he was purged. The...

The Gang of Four is arrested, ending the Cultural Revolution’s leadership faction

📅 6 October 1976

Hua Guofeng and allies arrested the Gang of Four weeks after Mao’s death. This political shift ended the decade-long campaign and opened the way for rehabilitations and renewed emphasis on...