Communism and Industrial Development (China and Soviet Union) Building Socialism Communism and Industrial Development (China and Soviet Union)

Anti-Capitalist But= Pro-moderinizing Saw industrialization as way to a modern future Drawn from work of Karl Marx

Planned Economies Both countries adopted strategies for industrial development State ownership of property 5-year plans that emphasized heavy industry Lead to urbanization and rise of privileged bureaucrats

Social Changes Large factories dominate cities Cities lived off food taken from countryside New class of elite party bureaucrates, engineers, and managers Stalin of USSR accepted social changes Mao of China did not Saw them as a betrayal of the Communist path Wanted to return China to ethics of revolutionary period

Mao’s China Great Leap Forward= 1958-60 Campaign to industrialize using his idea of revolutionary values Pushed for small, decentralized industrial projects Wanted to mobilize the pop as a whole and not rely on experts Results== economic chaos and massive famine!

Mao’s China Discredited by Great Leap Forward he started: Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 1966--69 *a political struggle against opponents --also sought to fight increasing inequalities (by bringing social services like health care to countryside) -----program was a failure

Environmental consequences (especially in USSR) Large scale industry created large-scale pollution problems and other disasters