Russia
Top-down Industrialization
First Revolution: February Revolution
Lenin
Lenin’s Communist Revolution established the Soviet Union
Give land to Europeans and stop the wars
He is pragmatic, a realist
Early policy: allow wealthy farmers to profit -> increased food production
Allows business, street stocks
Reduced food crisis
propaganda
+some capitalism (to survive)
Capacitated
Stalin, Stalinism
Brutal Authoritarianism
Make him like a chosen leader
Surfdom was back
Revolves around him. Dear leader (perfect, not wrong)
Never the leader’s fault, Isolated
Someone was manipulating
Focus on Industrialization
Dies in 1953. Ironically, no doctors (Stalin killed a lot of people)
Pick a hole in Stalin but not in Mao
China
Sun Yat-Sen
Coming out of the fall of the Qing
Public intellectual figure
Not Anti-communist, develop a republic
Exploring different ideologies
He lacked actual power (army)
Supplemented by Yuan Shikai (ROC)
Had the opportunity to form a republic
Upswelling power, to reform
goes nowhere
Support from cities
Communism
The secret of success is to be with peasants (no workers)
Rising inequality is a problem.
Republicanism
Democracy develops slowly
Communists have more ground game
What people proceed to be true becomes true.
Mao, Maoism
In a non-industrialized society
Bottom-Up (Comparison)
Start the Campaign
Contentious moments