strayer 21 // unit 8

Russian Revolution

Russia needed a way out of world war 1 and out of the provisional government and dynasty, so they were motivated by Lenin and the Bolsheviks

Bolsheviks/ Lenin

socialist party that took control of Russia after the revolution, made use of promises and a charismatic leader to gain support

Guomindang

Chinese nationalist party that made reforms within the city but was not able to gain wide spread support, traded out for communism in 1949

Mao Zedong

leader of the CCP that gained the support of many peasants and workers through integrity and persistance

Chinese Revolution

marked the end of Imperialism in China in 1911

Stalin

followed Lenin as the leader of the communist party in Russia, killed off millions of his own people though he was regarded as a deity in his life time

building socialism

achievements of the centralized state and collectivization helped communism gain more support, while economic growth kept the system on its feet

Zhenotdel

Bolshevik leaders set this up in 1919 to try to further women's rights, and enabled women to be the sole leaders of this feminist agenda

collectivization

the process of taking land away from individuals and dividing it equally among everyone, an attempt to make farming more efficient

cultural revolution

launched by Mao in an attempt to eliminate any capitalist tendencies that had been picked up, also rejected feminism

Great purges/ Terror

efforts by the Chinese and Russian communist parties to chase down suspicions and get rid of revolutionaries

Cuban missile crisis

Soviets and Americans wanted to make use of their shiny new nuclear toys and Russia used the revolutionary regime of Fidel Castro to expand communism

Nikita Khrushchev

Soviet leader at the time of the Cuban crisis, came into power after stalin, made use of alliance with Cuba to get back at the Americans

Deng Xiaoping

Attempted to make up for the wrong doings of Mao by exposing the truths of the Cultural Revolution; used economic reformation to piece China back together

Perestroika/Glasnost

Gorbachev's policies of economic and social freedoms that were aimed at regaining support through the introduction of some aspects of democracy

Mikhail Gorbachev

came to power in 1985 in a final attempt to revive Soviet socialism, resulted in the end of the communist era and cold war in 1991