USSR and China’s Communism

1. USSR and China’s Communism Jeffrey Yang

2. Similarities Collectivization An advertisement for the Dazhai commune in Shanxi province of China A propaganda painting showing Peasants celebrating on a collectivized farm

3. Similarities Women’s Rights Poster that shows women and men both being able to participate in society as equals in China Propaganda of a woman working hard to try to show equality between genders

4. Similarities Industrialization Picture displaying the creation of steel during the night at backyard furnaces in china Poster used in Russia to promote the 5 year plan for rapid industrialization

5. Similarities Charismatic Leaders Picture of Chairman Mao Picture of Stalin

6. Similarities Actions against Rich Poster displaying the “speak bitterness meetings”, denouncing the landlords Picture of some Kulaks, the richer peasants who were singled out

7. Differences Ways to control power Large crowd waving with the Little Red Book during the cultural revolution Plaque with photos of people that were killed in the Great Purge

8. Differences Rural vs Urban focus Peasants following the ideas of Mao in the countryside Russian soldiers marching through the city in 1917

9. Differences Initial opponents of Communism Chiang Kai-Shek, the leader of the strong Guomindang Picture of Tsar Nicholas II, a weak leader

10. Differences Eliminating enemies Group of laborers that were forced by the Gulag Picture of the Red Guards, who were much more public

11. Differences Ways they found support Banner of the Russian Revolution, Bolsheviks gained support by urging withdrawal from WWI Picture of Chinese soldiers, who won support to the CCP by aggressively fighting Japanese in WWII