Russia+and+China

 Revolution in Russia pg. 681-685   · Alexander Kerensky: revolutionary leader, eager to see parliamentary rule, religious and other free freedoms  · Food and labor shortages led to strickes in 1917  · The October revolution was led by Bosheviks and Lenin, wanted to take control from communist party.  · Lenin replaces parliament with Congress of Soviets  · Famine and unemployment created more economic hardship than the war.  · The Red Army: powerful new army under the leadership on Leon Trotsky  · Lenin issued New Economic Policy: promised considerable freedom of action for small business owners and peasant landowners  · Regime gained time to prepare the more durable structures of the communist system.  · A new constitution set up a federal system of socialist republics, recognized the multinational character of the nation: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics  · Appeared to be parliamentary democracy, but was really controlled by communists.  · The Supreme Soviet had many of the trappings of a parliament and was elected by universal suffrage.  · New educational system reshaped popular culture away from older peasant traditions and beliefs in communist political analysis and science.  · Joseph Stalin gained control, wanted to focus on Russian socialism internally.  Stalinism in the Soviet Union pg. 698-703   · Stalin wanted to make Russia industrialized through Gov. Intervention. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · The Great Depression = bad economy <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Collectivization: creation of large, state run farms, rather than individual holdings. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Collectivization allowed more efficient control over peasants; some welcomed the idea while others refused to cooperate voluntarily. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · A system of five year plans included heavy industrialization without westernization. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Stalin sought to create an alternative private business ownership but also to the profit oriented marker mechanism. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Industrialization led to crowded cities and cramped housing. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Soviet industry was directed from the top with no legal outlet, strikes were outlawed <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Socialist realism: emphasized heroic idealization of workers, soldiers, and peasants <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Politburo: party congresses and meetings of the executive committee <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Soviet dissatisfaction with Germany, led to war. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -27pt;"> <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -27pt;"> <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"> <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -27pt;"> Eastern Europe after WWII pg. 750-759  <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Russia sought out to influence East Europe to serve as a shield against the West. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Russia gained influence in countries like China and Vietnam, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Influence through trade and cultural missions on all settled continents=Soviet Union superpower <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Manufacturing of nuclear weapons <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Eastern European nations had communists movements supported by the Soviet Union <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Collectivization and five year plan was adopted by other nations. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Berlin Wall: built by Soviets in 1961, built to stop people from leaving the part of Berlin that was controlled by Soviets. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Warsaw Pact: alliance in respond to Nato <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Liberal movements weakened by Soviet Union <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Influence over Eastern Europe decreased, but continued military presence. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Increased social welfare programs and omnipresent party bureaucracy <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Regime declared war on the Orthodox church, by the 1950 church attendance decreased under gov. repression <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Soviet State continued to attack modern Western styled of art and literature. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Education system helped build sense of nationalism <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Agriculture continued to struggle, social classes remained just about the same <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Khrushchev emerged from the committee pack took power from Stalin, little reform <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Khrushchev had little desire for the war, geared away from military promoted a new policy for peace; lowered cold war tensions <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Siberian land program led to his downfall <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Cuban missile crisis: Soviets installed missiles in Cuba <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Faced a number of new foreign policy problems <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Rift with China, which was a communist nation with a shared long border. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Invasion of Afghanistan in order to support puppet regime, which bogged down amid guerilla warfare <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Lack of consumer culture and high rates of alcoholism <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt -0.5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"> Explosion of the 1980s and 1990s pg. 841-847  <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -9pt;"> · Soviets lose control because of poor economic performance and costs of competing with the United States military. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -9pt;"> · Growing inadequacy of housing and consumer goods. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -9pt;"> · Mikhaild Gorbachev: young official, renewed earlier attacks on Stalinist rigidity and replaced some of the old-line party bureaucrats <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -9pt;"> · He was western dressed and allowed media criticism <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -9pt;"> · Glasnost: Gorbachev proclaimed a policy of openness <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -9pt;"> · Perestroika: economic restructuring – leeway for private ownership and decentralized control in industry and agriculture <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -9pt;"> · Congress of the People’s Deputies gave more power to parliament <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -9pt;"> · Nationalist agitations in the Balkans <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -9pt;"> · Eastern countries adopted new democratic, noncommunist governments <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -9pt;"> · The Berlin Wall was dismantled, German unification in 1991 <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -9pt;"> · Soviet troops left Eastern Europe, end of Soviet Union <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -9pt;"> · Boris Yeltsin: became president of Russia <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -9pt;"> · The former Soviet Union gave way to the loose Commonwealth of Independent States. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -9pt;"> · Tensions immediately surfaced about economic coordination led to decline of Yeltsin <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -9pt;"> · Civil War in Muslim <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 0in; text-indent: -9pt;"> · New president Putin, wanted to clean up corruption but attacked opponents repressed media outlets - ** October revolution - Communist govt. led by Lenin - Govt. involvement and control - Bad conditions with peasants and lower class continue  || - Supported government intervention - Wanted to industrialize Russia - Stressed having a strong military  || - Five year plan: heavy industrialization without westernization. - Collectivization: creation of large, state run farms, rather than individual holdings - Cold war || ** - Social reforms eased some of the suffering. || **  Long-Term Effects   ** - Nationalism and communism - Stepping stone for future economic, political, and military structure.
 * ** Name of Leader  ** : Joseph Stalin   ||
 * ** Lifespan:  ** Dec. 1878 - March 1953   ||  **  Title:  ** Chairman of the Council of Ministers   ||
 * ** Country/region:  ** Soviet Union   ||  **  Years in Power:  ** 1941 – 1953   ||
 * ** Political, Social, & Economic Conditions Prior to Leaders Gaining Power
 * **  Ideology, Motivation, Goals:   **
 * ** Significant Actions & events During Term of Power **
 * ** Short-Term effects:

|| <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"> 4. Write a thesis statement for the following questions. Although Russia’s political structure remained unstable, it underwent major changes from a communist government to a federation from 1914 to the present. Drastic changes are viewed in Russian Society from 1914 to the present especially for the peasant and lower class. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"> Toward Revolution in China pg. 685-689  <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Fall of the Qing dynasty <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Rise of Communist party <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Yuan Shikai: hoped to seize the vacated Manchu throne and found a new dynasty <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Dealings with Japan=downfall of Shikai <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · May the Fourth movement: mass demonstrations protesting against Japanese inroads (resistance began) ; aimed at transforming China into a liberal democracy <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Ll Dazhai: placed heavy emphasis on capacity for promoting renewal, head of Marxist study circle <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Mao Zedong: young student of Ll Dazhao, believed that imperialist powers betrayed China <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Guomindang: Nationalist party, wanted to prove the communist great rival for the mandate to rule China <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Whampoa Military Academy: gave nationalists a critical military dimension to their political maneuvering <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Peasants class dissatisfied <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Chiang Kai-shek: young military officer, took control of nationalist party and unified China <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"> <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt -27pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"> Mao’s China and Beyond pg. 823-830  <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Japanese invasion of China, power shifted to communist in 1945. <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · People's Republic of China: establish by Mao after Chiang and his armies fled <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Mao gained support through land reforms, education, and improved healthcare <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Lin Biao: commander, gifted in conventional warfare <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Communist won the mandate to govern China because they offered solutions to the social and economic problems <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Party cadres & the People’s Liberation army: strong military and political organization <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Rift with Soviet Union <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Tested nuclear weapons <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Gave land back to peasant class <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Mass Line: economic policy of Zedong which led to the formation of agricultural cooperative <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Great Lean Forward: was a further effort to revitalize the revolution by restoring its mass, rural base (industrialization) <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Led to Chinese famine <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Mao lost his position, pragmatists included Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqui, Deng Xiaoping <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Jiang Qing: Mao’s wife, committed to the liberation of Chinese women <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Cultural Revolution: mass student demonstrations, Mao wanted to restore his dominance over pragmatists <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Red Guard: “little red books” student brigades <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Gang of Four: contested power against Mao <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Redistributed wealth to the poorest fraction of society; economic growth // Protest and Repression in China // // pg. // 848-849  <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Students camped in Beijing’s central Tiananmen Square <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Led to the death of hundreds and additional political imprisonments and exiles <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Demonstrations, boycotts, smashing, looting, burning, traffic jams, hunger strikes: decrease in publish health and safety <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo8; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Damaged social stability, claims gov. in striving for the same as the students Li Peng objects to the protest because he feels it is tarnishing China’s international image and prestige. He also feels that all of China striving for the same goals, like “push forward reform, develop democracy, and overcome corruption,” so they have to reason to be causing all this nonsense. Peng thinks everything is stable and that the protest is putting their accomplishments on pause. His argument against the few corrupt people that cause all riots and his argument on overall order are similar to those of governments. The Chinese decided to repress political democracy in order to weaken their rule. - ** Economically instability - Japanese threat - Bad conditions with peasants and lower class continue  || - Authoritarian state - Wanted to industrialize China - Opposed Western nations  || - Party cadres and the People's Liberation A rmy: strong military and political org. - Stable communist gov. - Great Lean Forward: was a further effort to revitalize the revolution by restoring its mass, rural base (industrialization) - Cultural Revolution: mass student demonstrations, Mao wanted to restore his dominance over pragmatists || ** - Social reforms, economic stability. || **  Long-Term Effects   ** <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 9pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 9.0pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · - Mao gained support through land reforms, education, and improved healthcare.
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> Analyze the changes and continuities in Russian political structure from 1914 to the present
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> Analyze the changes in Russian Society from 1914 to the present
 * ** Name of Leader  ** : Mao Zedong   ||
 * ** Lifespan:  ** Dec. 1893 – Sep. 1976   ||  **  Title:  ** Chairman of the Communist Party of China   ||
 * ** Country/region:  ** China   ||  **  Years in Power:  ** 1943 – 1976   ||
 * ** Political, Social, & Economic Conditions Prior to Leaders Gaining Power
 * **  Ideology, Motivation, Goals:   **
 * ** Significant Actions & events During Term of Power **
 * ** Short-Term effects:

||  8. Write a thesis statement for the following questions. Although Chinese politics have managed to successfully run a communist government, the way they run this communist government has continuously changed between 1914 to the present. With the help of women like Jiang Qing and other Chinese figures, Chinese society has changed drastically for everyone from women to peasants during the period 1914 to the present.
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo9; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> Analyze the changes and continuities in Chinese politics from 1914 to the present
 * <span style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo9; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"> Analyze the changes in Chinese Society from 1914 to the present