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socialism

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  • 1st step in building socialism - modernization and industrialization of their “backward societies”
  • simultaneously wanted to eliminate inequalities of class and gender, prevent the growth of new inequalities as they modernized, and promote values of selflessness and collectivism
  • in order to do this, government had to be completely dominated by the communist party
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collectivism

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  • giving a group priority over the individual
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government

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  • became totalitarian in China and Soviet Union
  • other political parties forbidden
  • government controlled almost the entire economy
  • government ensured that the arts, education and media conformed to approved ways of thinking
  • organizations for women, workers, students and professional groups operated under party control
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as a result of laws and decrees passed by the Soviet Union

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  • women were granted full legal and political equality
  • divorce was legalized and made easier
  • abortions were legalized and made easier
  • marriage became a civil procedure among freely consenting adults
  • illegitimacy was abolished
  • women no longer had to take their husband’s last names
  • pregnancy leave for employed woman was mandated
  • women were actively mobilized as industrial workers
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the marriage law of 1950 in China implemented:

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  • free choice in marriage
  • relatively easy divorce
  • the end of concubines and child marriages
  • permission for widows to remarry
  • equal property rights for men and women
  • Chinese women also became more involved in industrial production
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note

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  • women were still expected to take care of children and household
  • women appeared very rarely at the top of social hierarchy
  • communist feminism did not continue
  • within a decade is started to fade out
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in communist china, the government controlled _____________

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  • almost all of the economy
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as china modernized they wanted to eliminate _______________

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  • inequalities of class
  • inequalities of gender
  • new inequalities
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in communist china the marriage law of 1950 _________________

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  • implemented free choice in marriage
  • allowed easier divorce
  • ended child marriages
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in communist Russia, women were _________

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  • given full legal and political equality
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the first step of building socialism in China was to ______

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  • modernize and industrialize society
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as china modernized they wanted to simultaneously ___________

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  • eliminate inequalities of class and gender

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