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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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!

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

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