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Communism (Soviet Communism, Chinese Communism), During years 1950 and…
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Chinese Communist Leader
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Great Leap Forward-An economic and social campaign that tries to change China from an agrarian (farming) economy to a modern society
Important Vocabulary
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Great Leap Forward: An economic and social campaign that tries to change China from an agrarian (farming) economy to a modern society
Cultural Revolution: program to cleanse China of “bourgeois” (wealthy middle-class business owners) tendencies
Soviet Union- A Communist nation, consisting of Russia and 14 other states, that existed from 1922 to 1991. Union of the territories or states in Russia while it supported Communism
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Soviet: were political organizations and governmental bodies, primarily associated with the Russian Revolutions and the history of the Soviet Union
Bolshevik: "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
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Proletariat: workers or working-class people, regarded collectively (often used with reference to Marxism).
Russian Revolution
Problems Under the Czar
Economic Problems:Over 90% of Russian people were serfs (landless peasants) who worked on wealthy landowners’ property and received little if any economic gains from their work
Social Problems:
- Tremendous cold and difficult farming conditions often led to hunger and starvation in Russia.
- Secret police was used by the Czar to crush any opposition. Use of thousands of informers kept serfs from unifying.
Political Problems:
- No freedom of speech, press, right to a trial or any basic human rights existed for serfs.
- Czar ruled with an “iron fist.” Serfs had no voice in influencing government policies.
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