- Marxism's path to the future
- Communist revolutions in agrarian societies
- communist parties outside of communist regimes
- Internationalism
- Conflict among communist states
Revolutions as a Path to Communism
RUSSA:
- Romanov collapse in WWI - Feb 1917
- Continues chaos under provisional government
- Bolsheviks seize power in october of 1917
- Lenins revision of Marxism
- Civil War 1918-1921
- Stalin in Eastern Europe after WWII
CHINA
- CCP not found until 1921
- Conflict with Chiang Kai-sheks Guomindang
- Chinese peasant villages
- Mao Zedong
- Appealing to women
- 1937-1954 Japanese invasion
Communist Feminism
- Sovient state enacts reforms for women
- Zhenotdel 1919-1930
- "WOMEN CAN DO ANYTHING"
- limited
Socialism in the Countryside
- peasants seize land in russia in 1917
- "speak bitterness meeting" in china from 1949- 1952
- collectivization and famines
Communism and Industrial Development
- anticapitalist but ardently pro-modernizing
- planned economics with emphasis on industry
- urbanization
- exploitation of country side
- rise of privileged bureaucrats
- rise of technocrats
- stalin accepts social changes
- Mao does not accept social changes
- 1958-1960 great leap forward
- great proletarian and cultural revolution
- environmental consequences
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