Chapter 21

Chapter 21 discussed Russia and China and how the two were socialist and communist countries. Russia is an industrialized nation with no large working class or middle class, but what was rather known as an intellectual class. Russias government would impose their communistic views on not only their people but tried to control/manipulate other countries. This later, in turn, began to cause conflict between the government and its people. China was also a communist country and began to follow the ideas of Karl Marx. They were similar to Russia in that they both share an intellectual class. China struggled to have their people follow their new form of government, especially when it came to their peasants, it was a struggle to have the peasants support them unlike how it was in Russia. In class, we also discussed the Cold War and whether or not it ended, in my opinion, it's hard to say, but the way I look at it is that it is a state of constant tension between the United States and Russia.

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