Capitalism vs. Socialism: Comparing Economic Systems Season 1 Episode 20 From Chairman Mao to the Capitalist Roaders
- TV-PG
- March 30, 2018
- 29 min
Professor Stuart turns his attention to China, focusing on the 20th-century influence of Soviet communism under leaders like Mao Zedong. Look at the ways China was shaped by its earlier history to be especially unprepared for industrialization on the Soviet scale and how the cultural revolution under Mao further impeded progress, eventually resulting in an overthrow of his ideas after his death.