World Communism
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"...Marxist theory envisioned communism flourishing in industrialized nations, like in the United States or Great Britain or Germany – areas that had an accumulation of capital, had technology, had a sophisticated proletariat.
Instead, it takes place in agricultural countries – countries that would have to rapidly industrialize to even reach the stage of capitalism so that it could then transition into socialism and finally communism..."
Key Terms
- Russia
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Vladimir Lenin
- Leon Trotsky
- Joseph Stalin
- Bolshevik Party
- Soviet Union
- Warsaw Pact
- China
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Mao Tse-tung (Zedong)
- People's Republic of China
- Great Leap Forward
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
- Command Economy
Guided Viewing Questions
- What factors made communist ideology appealing to many people across the world during the twentieth century?
- How did communist governments come to control Russia and much of Europe during the first half of the twentieth century?
- How did communists take power in China?
- How did communism spread to parts of Africa and Latin America?
- Why did communism collapse in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union?
- In what way did China and Vietnam move away from communism since the 1980s?