1. Russian and Chinese Communism Pooja Kotak

2. Similarity #1: Industry Early Soviet poster: The Smoke of chimneys is the breath of Soviet Russia. Factories in China c. 1950

3. Similarity #2: Communist Feminism Chinese women have always worked, but now they’re making waves in business. What the October Revolution gave to the female worker and peasant. 1920 Soviet propaganda poster. The inscriptions on the buildings read "library", "kindergarten", "school for grown- ups", etc.

4. Similarity #3: Charismatic Leaders The sunlight of Mao Zedong thoughts illuminates the road of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966. The Bolshevik and Speaker’s Corner Vladamir Lenin

5. Similarity #4: Famine Children affected by famine in Soviet-administered southern Ukraine, Berdyansk, 1922. famine Berdyansk The Great Chinese Famine of 1959- 1961

6. Similarity #5: Marxism Mao Zedong used Karl Marx’s ideasRussian leader Lenin drawing from Marxism ideas:

7. Difference #1: Origin of Support Chinese FarmlandSt. Petersburg, Russia

8. Difference #2: Population China’s PopulationUSSR’s Population

9. Difference #3: Enemies China’s Red Guard Russian Gulag

10. Difference #4: Collectivization Soviet Collectivization Village Propaganda(19 29): The Poster Reads "On our collective there is no room for priests or kulaks". People communes in rural China

11. Difference #5:Alliances Russia stands alone as a communist country for 10 years. Mao Zedong and Lenin stand together. Symbolizes the USSR and China alliance.