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Mao Zedong

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leader of the CCP that gained the support of many peasants and workers through integrity and persistance

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collectivization

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the process of taking land away from individuals and dividing it equally among everyone, an attempt to make farming more efficient

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Russian Revolution

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Russia needed a way out of WWI and out of the provisional government and dynasty, so they were motivated by Lenin and the Bolsheviks

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Soviet leader at the time of the Cuban crisis, came into power after stalin, made use of alliance with Cuba to get back at the Americans

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Zhenotdel

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Bolshevik leaders set this up in 1919 to try to further women's rights, and enabled women to be the sole leaders of this feminist agenda

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Chinese Revolution

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marked the end of Imperialism in China in 1911

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Deng Xiaoping

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Attempted to make up for the wrong doings of Mao by exposing the truths of the Cultural Revolution; used economic reformation to piece China back together

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"building socialism"

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achievements of the centralized state and collectivization helped communism gain more support, while economic growth kept the system on its feet

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Guomindang

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Chinese nationalist party that made reforms within the city but was not able to gain wide spread support, traded out for communism in 1949

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Cuban missile crisis

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Soviets and Americans wanted to make use of their shiny new nuclear toys and Russia used the revolutionary regime of Fidel Castro to expand communism

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cultural revolution

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launched by Mao in an attempt to eliminate any capitalist tendencies that had been picked up, also rejected feminism

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Great Terror/purges

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efforts by the Chinese and Russian communist parties to chase down suspicions and get rid of revolutionaries

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Bolsheviks/Lenin

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socialist party that took control of Russia after the revolution, made use of promises and a charismatic leader to gain support

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Perestroika/Glasnost

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Gorbachev's policies of economic and social freedoms that were aimed at regaining support through the introduction of some aspects of democracy

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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came to power in 1985 in a final attempt to revive Soviet socialism, resulted in the end of the communist era and cold war in 1991

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Stalin

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followed Lenin as the leader of the communist party in Russia, killed off millions of his own people though he was regarded as a deity in his life time

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