USSR and China’s Communism

Jeffrey Yang

Collectivization

An advertisement for the Dazhai commune in Shanxi province of China

Similarities

A propaganda painting showing Peasants celebrating on a collectivized farm

Women’s Rights

Propaganda of a woman working hard to try to show equality between genders

Similarities

Poster that shows women and men both being able to participate in society as equals in China

Industrialization

Poster used in Russia to promote the 5 year plan for rapid industrialization

Similarities

Picture displaying the creation of steel during the night at backyard furnaces in china

Charismatic Leaders

Picture of Stalin

Similarities

Picture of Chairman Mao

Actions against Rich

Picture of some Kulaks, the richer peasants who were singled out

Similarities

Poster displaying the “speak bitterness meetings”, denouncing the landlords

Ways to control power

Plaque with photos of people that were killed in the Great Purge

Differences

Large crowd waving with the Little Red Book during the cultural revolution

Rural vs Urban focus

Russian soldiers marching through the city in 1917

Differences

Peasants following the ideas of Mao in the countryside

Initial opponents of Communism

Picture of Tsar Nicholas II, a weak leader

Differences

Chiang Kai-Shek, the leader of the strong Guomindang

Eliminating enemies

Group of laborers that were forced by the Gulag

Differences

Picture of the Red Guards, who were much more public

Ways they found support

Banner of the Russian Revolution, Bolsheviks gained support by urging withdrawal from WWI

Differences

Picture of Chinese soldiers, who won support to the CCP by aggressively fighting Japanese in WWII