HIST 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Islamic Fundamentalism, Deng Xiaoping, Economic Restructuring
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Mao zedong concerned about this- convinced communism lost revolutionary edge. Organized great proletarian cultural revolution- participants were young adults- red guards. Mao"s program to purify and revitalize chinese and world communism. China begins to move away from soviet union model of communism. Czechoslovakian communist government enacts limited reforms (jan. 1968) Destroyed the legitimacy of communism in eastern european countries. All communist governments in eastern europe fall from power rapidly and peacefully. Origins of the fall of communism before 1985: Diverging standards of living between the first and second worlds. The kitchen debate (moscow, 1958) exchange of exhibitions that demonstrate what each country"s system does well. Us sends model of average american home, begin debate in kitchen about benefits of each system. 1985: mikhail gorbachev begins reforms to keep system in tact, actually leads to collapse of communist system. Result: soviet government authority undermined and soviet economy destabilized ( economic anarchy )
