nin once said, "The more backward a country which, owing to the zigzags of history has proved to be the one to start the socialist revolution, the more difficult it is for that country to pass from the old capitalist relations to socialist relations. New incredibly difficult tasks, organizational tasks, are added to the tasks of destruction." But when it came to china, Lenin was wrong since Mao had great support from the peasants. Mao was so confident that he thought he could move up to collectivization and other socialist programs. But then there was a period of retardation during the anti-Japanese wars and the civil wars. But again, Mao helped China out a lot with those issues, and the! communists were eagerly welcomed as a new government. Overall, Mao was very successful in what he did, mostly because he learned from Russia’s mistakes, and because he carefully planned everything out. One of the things he understood that probably made him so great was that "If the workers and peasants become dissatisfied with their living conditions, will it not affect the expansion of our Red Army and the mobilization of the masses for the revolutionary war?" But even the best still make mistakes, and Mao did make some big mistakes in his time, he admitted them though, later on in his life. Communism arose in other countries as well, but not on such a scale as in Russia or China. We saw that communist ideas came about at a time of great change- the industrial revolution, and that it emerged because of human nature. It is our nature to be greedy, and to always want to be like others if we can’t be better. The working class was underpaid, while the bourgeoisie was growing rich, so the workers wanted equality because they didn’t get enough money. They wanted to steal from the rich, and split the money amongst themselves. So, in conclusion, I have shown by giving specific examples, that communism arose in the mid 19th century, because o...
