Cult of personality, the promotion of a leader's image as infallible or heroic, used to secure loyalty beyond formal political structures, Collectivisation, the reorganisation of individual farms into state controlled collective units, Danwei, the work unit system that controlled housing, rationing, and social life under the CCP, Great Leap Forward, Mao's 1958 to 1962 campaign to rapidly industrialise and collectivise, which led to mass famine, Red Guards, student paramilitary groups mobilised by Mao during the Cultural Revolution, Little Red Book, a collection of Mao's quotations used to spread ideological conformity, Laogai camps, forced labour and re-education camps used to punish and control dissenters, Great Chinese Famine, the famine caused by Great Leap Forward policies, resulting in tens of millions of deaths, Gang of Four, the radical faction led by Jiang Qing blamed for Cultural Revolution excesses after Mao's death, Hundred Flowers Campaign, a brief 1956 period inviting open criticism of the party, followed by a crackdown on critics

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