Ch 21 Flashcards
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Mao zedong
Mao Zedong was a Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and communist leader. He led the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. His theoretical contribution to Marxism-Leninism, military strategies, and his brand of Communist policies are now collectively known as Maoism.
Mao remains a controversial figure to this day, with a contentious and ever-evolving legacy. He is officially held in high regard in China as a great revolutionary, political strategist, military mastermind, and savior of the nation. Many Chinese also believe that through his policies, he laid the economic, technological and cultural foundations of modern China, transforming the country from an agrarian society into a major world power. Additionally, Mao is viewed by many as a poet, philosopher, and visionary, owing the latter primarily to the cult of personality fostered during his time in power. As a consequence,[clarification needed] his portrait continues to be featured prominently on Tiananmen and on all Renminbi bills.
Conversely, Mao’s social-political programs, such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, are blamed for costing millions of lives, causing severe famine and damage to the culture, society and economy of China. This is generally accepted in China as well as by the Chinese Communist Party. Mao’s policies and political purges from 1949 to 1976 are widely believed to have caused the deaths of between 50 to 70 million people. Since Deng Xiaoping assumed power in 1978, many Maoist policies have been abandoned in favor of economic strategies
Guomindang
Chinese Nationalist party. Helped overthrow the qing Dynasty
Zhenotdel
The Zhenotdel (Russian: Женотдел), the women’s department (zhenskii otdel) of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, was the world’s first government department devoted to the advancement of women.
The Zhenotdel was established by two Russian feminist revolutionaries, Alexandra Kollontai and Inessa Armand, in 1919. It was devoted to improving the conditions of women’s lives throughout the Soviet Union, fighting illiteracy, and educating women about the new marriage, education, and working laws put in place by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Zhenotdel was shut down in 1930, in accordance with the then-dominant theory that all women’s issues in the Soviet Union had been “solved”.
Collectivization
Collectivization in the Soviet Union was enforced under Stalin between 1928 and 1940. The goal of this policy was to consolidate individual land and labour into collective farms: mainly kolkhozy and sovkhozy. The Soviet leadership was confident that the replacement of individual peasant farms by collective ones would immediately increase the food supply for urban population, the supply of raw materials for processing industry, and agricultural exports.
Anna dubova
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Nikita khrushchev
Hi -ranked Soviet member known for his involvement in the building of the Berlin wall and The Cuban missile crisis. He denounced Stalin when he took over the Soviet Union after stalin’s death
Deng xiaoping
Chinese political leader who after Maos death, led China to become a market economy
Perestroika / glasnost
It was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s (1986), widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning “openness”) policy reform. The literal meaning of perestroika is “restructuring”, referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system.
Perestroika is often argued to be the cause of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe, and the end of the Cold War.[2]
Gorbachev
Former President of the ussr. the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until its collapse in 1991
1988 would see Gorbachev’s introduction of glasnost, which gave new freedoms to the people, including greater freedom of speech.
In 1990, Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
