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Russian and Chinese Communism. Pooja Kotak. Similarity #1: Industry. Early Soviet poster: The Smoke of chimneys is the breath of Soviet Russia. Factories in China c. 1950. Similarity #2: Communist Feminism.
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Russian and Chinese Communism Pooja Kotak
Similarity #1: Industry Early Soviet poster: The Smoke of chimneys is the breath of Soviet Russia. Factories in China c. 1950
Similarity #2: Communist Feminism What the October Revolution gave to the female worker and peasant. 1920 Soviet propaganda poster. The inscriptions on the buildings read "library", "kindergarten", "school for grown-ups", etc. Chinese women have always worked, but now they’re making waves in business.
Similarity #3: Charismatic Leaders The sunlight of Mao Zedong thoughts illuminates the road of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966. The Bolshevik and Speaker’s Corner Vladamir Lenin
Similarity #4: Famine Children affected by famine in Soviet-administered southern Ukraine, Berdyansk, 1922. The Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961
Similarity #5: Marxism Mao Zedong used Karl Marx’s ideas Russian leader Lenin drawing from Marxism ideas:
Difference #1: Origin of Support Chinese Farmland St. Petersburg, Russia
Difference #2: Population China’s Population USSR’s Population
Difference #3: Enemies China’s Red Guard Russian Gulag
Difference #4: Collectivization Soviet Collectivization Village Propaganda(1929): The Poster Reads "On our collective there is no room for priests or kulaks". People communes in rural China
Difference #5:Alliances Mao Zedong and Lenin stand together. Symbolizes the USSR and China alliance. Russia stands alone as a communist country for 10 years.