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"deliberately orchestrated by the Party to be carried out by peasants (with naturally varying degrees of enthusiasm)"??

I'm well versed in post-revolutionary history and have not heard of such a thing. Can you provide a reliable source?

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The Civil War was a war in which everything was done. After the war, as I have explained above, the killing stopped.

The source you linked to, CHINA' LAND WAR, say, "To achieve socialist utopia, the Communists imposed and performed a harsh script of peasant liberation through fierce class struggle. While many accounts of the campaigns give false credence to this narrative, DeMare argues that the reality was much more complex and brutal than is commonly understoodтАФwhile many villagers prospered, there were families torn apart and countless deathsтАЭ. There is no evidence for this, and abundant evidence to the contrary.

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