The alliance drew Sun into the mainstream revolutionary activity and provided a platform for his emerging philosophy "The Three Principles" of Nationalism, Democracy and People's Livelihood. ... Some believe that although Sun wasn't directly involved in the 1911 revolution, his promotion and campaigning for that revolt against the Qing dynasty was the light that ignited flame and he was "the prophet and organizer of the revolution" He made people aware that there was a better way of being governed and the thousands of years of dynastic rule were not granting China's needs. .....

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Here, people were forced into communal areas where farmers had to grow crops and also produce steel and iron for infrastructure projects. ... Collectivization policies produced famines in both China and Russia. ... The social revolution portrayed by the Culture Revolution and the necessity to get rid of the four olds: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits and Old Ideas. ... Perhaps Mao's most important social policy was the push to educate the people of China. In 1949 only 10% of people were literate and there was no standardized form of writing making it even harder to become educated. ...

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In terms of politics, Marxism has created socialism 6and evolved into communism7. ... Marxism has influenced the politics of many countries up until today, such as Russia and China and many historic events of these nations. ... The decreasing health conditions and rising mortality rates, as well as the bad weather during the Great Leap Forward led to the Great Chinese Famine11, and caused an economic regression as well as death tolls ranging from 18 million to 45 million people, as well as initiating the Culture Revolution in 196612. ... Marxism influenced China's Great Leap Forward to a ...

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Russia is in temporary decline. ... In just over two decades from its inception, the foreign policy of the Peoples Republic of China swung from formal alliance with the Soviet Union against the US, to de facto alliance with the US against the Soviet Union . ... The foreign policy objectives of a communist China however are not purely national in spirit, because Mao firmly believed in the ideological superiority of communism and claimed for China the role of leadership in the drive to world revolution. ... Mao and his followers set out to build a society that was to be organised for the benefit...

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