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