COMMUNISM PICTURE PROJECT

Zach Stanik

SIMILARITIES

Constructing Socialism

USSR China

Both the USSR and China undertook attempts to build socialism in their countries

Marxism

Both the USSR and China got their inspiration for communism from the

ideals of Karl Marx

Feminism

USSR

China

Both the USSR and China undertook feminism as part of their communist regime. Both of these pictures are

of women being mobilized for work

Famine

Famine in USSR, which caused 5 million deaths

Famine in China, which caused 20 million deaths

Both the USSR and China experienced huge famines, largely due to the

Communist Party’s inability to correctly implement their ideals

Industrialization

Factory in the USSR

Factory in China

The USSR and China both undertook massive industrialization in order to combat their country’s

backwardness

Environment

Due to the massive industrialization undertaken by both countries, the USSR and China

experienced substantial environmental harm; as represented by these smoke stacks spewing

pollution into the air

DIFFERENCES

Revolution

Russian revolution lasted only a year; 1917

Chinese revolution lasted almost 3 decades; 1921-1949

Former governments

Members of the Provisional Government, a weak

government that Bolshevik revolutionaries had to face to

come to power

Symbol of the Guomindang, the strong

government that Mao Zedong and his followers had to face to come to

power

Where support was found

Workers in the USSR, in which the Bolsheviks found support

Chinese peasantry, in which the CCP found

support

Methods for support

Bolsheviks found support by urging the withdrawal of Russia

from WWI

The CCP found support by fighting aggressively against

the Japanese invaders

Communism Vs. Capitalism

USSR poster in 1931, the USSR had to face

capitalism alone when it arose

When Chinese communism arose 30

years later, China found an ally in the USSR to face

capitalism