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| 13582358418 | Russian Revolution | Russia needed a way out of WWI and out of the provisional government and dynasty, so they were motivated by Lenin and the Bolsheviks |  | 0 |
| 13582358419 | Bolsheviks/Lenin | socialist party that took control of Russia after the revolution, made use of promises and a charismatic leader to gain support |  | 1 |
| 13582358420 | Guomindang | Chinese nationalist party that made reforms within the city but was not able to gain wide spread support, traded out for communism in 1949 |  | 2 |
| 13582358421 | Mao Zedong | leader of the CCP that gained the support of many peasants and workers through integrity and persistance |  | 3 |
| 13582358422 | Chinese Revolution | marked the end of Imperialism in China in 1911 |  | 4 |
| 13582358423 | Stalin | 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 |  | 5 |
| 13582358424 | "building socialism" | achievements of the centralized state and collectivization helped communism gain more support, while economic growth kept the system on its feet | 6 | |
| 13582358425 | Zhenotdel | 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 |  | 7 |
| 13582358426 | collectivization | the process of taking land away from individuals and dividing it equally among everyone, an attempt to make farming more efficient |  | 8 |
| 13582358427 | cultural revolution | launched by Mao in an attempt to eliminate any capitalist tendencies that had been picked up, also rejected feminism | | 9 |
| 13582358428 | Great Terror/purges | efforts by the Chinese and Russian communist parties to chase down suspicions and get rid of revolutionaries |  | 10 |
| 13582358429 | Cuban missile crisis | 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 |  | 11 |
| 13582358430 | Nikita Khrushchev | 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 |  | 12 |
| 13582358431 | Deng Xiaoping | 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 |  | 13 |
| 13582358432 | Perestroika/Glasnost | Gorbachev's policies of economic and social freedoms that were aimed at regaining support through the introduction of some aspects of democracy |  | 14 |
| 13582358433 | Mikhail Gorbachev | 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 |  | 15 |
