Question

What were some similarities and differences between communist Russia and China?

What were som problems those countries were facing?

Was it a straight path to communism?

Answer 1

Both the Chinese and Russian revolutions applied the theories of Karl Marx to situations Marx himself had not anticipated. For Marx, communism was a form of social organization that would arise in highly developed wealthy nations after internal tensions and growing inequality led to the self-immolation of late capitalism. Both the Chinese and Russian revolutions were not transitions from late capitalist democracies but instead located in the context of agricultural nations with autocratic leaders