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Land Reform (1946–1949)
The CCP's redistribution of land from landlords to poor peasants during the Civil War and immediately after the PRC's founding. In CCP-controlled areas, land reform was used to mobilise peasant support and recruit soldiers: peasants who received land had a direct stake in Communist victory. The process involved "struggle sessions" in which landlords were publicly denounced and often killed. The policy was enormously effective at building a loyal rural base for the CCP.
Mass line
A CCP policy of maintaining close contact with the broad mass of the people. Party cadres were expected to gather ideas from the masses, interpret them through Marxist theory, and return them as policy.