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Differences Between The Soviet Union And The Chinese Revolution

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The Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China have some fundamental differences, but they became the most pronounced after Stalin’s death in 1953. The fundamental differences of the October Revolution in Russia and the Chinese Revolution is noted in “Mao Tse-tung’s Theory of People’s War” by Lin Biao. The October revolution was a proletarian socialist revolution that began as armed uprisings in cities and later spread to the countryside; in contrast, the Chinese revolution developed into a socialist revolution after a democratic revolution that started in the countryside and later spread to the cities. Mao also modeled many aspects of China after the Soviet Union, such as the first Five Year Plan, collectivization and famine (“Famine
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