Vocab
A system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state
Totalitarianism
It is a compilation of speeches and writings by Mao that was widely distributed in China and was mandatory
Little Red Book
A series of brutal campaigns from 1936 to 1938, orchestrated by Stalin to eliminate any potential opposition within the Soviet Union
The Great Purge/Terror
A Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union and organized the Great Terror
Stalin
In 1950, this law abolished arranged marriages, allowed divorce by mutual consent, and gave equal rights for men and women
Marriage Law 1950
When a leader is represented as larger than life through imagery and words of uncritical praise and flattery
Cult of Personality
Stalin's plan was a series of national centralized economic strategies that were designed to quickly transform the Soviet Union from a weak, agrarian society to a dominant industrial, military superpower. What was this plan called?
5-Year Plans
A brief time period during which Mao encouraged his citizens to criticize the government openly. It was intended to improve socialism, but led to unexpected intense criticism, leading to its quick shutdown and an Anti-Rightist Campaign
100 Flowers Campaign
Was the leader of the CCP who organized the Great Leap Forward
Mao
In 1959, this was a result of Mao's Great Leap Forward
China’s Great Famine 1959
Work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers, filmmakers, and musicians that aim to draw attention to real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures
Social Realism
A far-left communist ideology developed by Stalin in the 1920s; it was a synthesis of Karl Marx's theories with Lenin's strategies. It establishes a one-party state that controls the means of production to create a socialist society.
Marxism-Leninism
Violent, public sessions that were used to humiliate, torture, and interrogate individuals deemed class enemies
Struggle Sessions
He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia, and he was a significant rival to Stalin
Lenin
In 1919, this aimed to overthrow capitalism worldwide, establish Moscow as the center of the international communist movement, and split the global socialist movement between radical communists and moderate socialists
Comintern 1919
What were the four olds?
Old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits
A campaign in China, led by the CCP; it confiscated land from landlords and redistributed it to poor peasants.
Anti-Landlord campaign
A failed economic and social campaign by Mao to rapidly transform China from an agrarian society to a modern industrial society
The Great Leap Forward 1958
He was a Soviet politician, he built the Red Army, and he was an opponent of Stalin
Trotsky
It was a chaotic sociopolitical movement in China launched by the CCP to reassert Mao's authority; it mobilized the youth/Red Guards to target traditional culture and authority
The Cultural Revolution 1966-1976
The original army of the USSR, formed after the Russian Revolution of 1917
Red Army
Mao transformed millions of students into the Red Guards and urged them to destroy the four olds. Mao also empowered students to attack officials, teachers, and their parents who opposed him. This is an example of him…
Weaponizing of the Youth
A brutal campaign organized by Stalin that aimed to remove any opposition
The Great Terror
She was Mao’s wife, and she played a major role in the Cultural Revolution and led the Gang of Four
Jiang Qing
It was a military retreat by the Chinese Red Army and the CCP
Long March 1934-1935