Monday, April 17, 2017

Ways of the World: Chapter 20 Summary

Global Communism

  • 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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