Shortly after the Sino-Soviet Split, Mao began his purge of Chinese society from all capitalist and western elements via the Cultural Revolution. When he died on September 9, 1976, he left the country in a state of complete disarray, significantly economically weaker and politically isolated than it had been prior
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China and the Soviet Union were in similar periods of transition during the late 1970’s and the subsequent decade. Both were powerful, single party communist states, and despite the Sino-Soviet Split that
Shortly after the Sino-Soviet Split, Mao began his purge of Chinese society from all capitalist and western elements via the Cultural Revolution. When he died on September 9, 1976, he left the
China and the Soviet Union were in similar periods of transition during the late 1970’s and the subsequent decade. Both were powerful, single party communist states, and despite the Sino-Soviet Split that
