Evaluate how much communist rule transformed Soviet and/or Chinese societies from circa 1930 to 1990.
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From 1930 to 1990 communist rule transformed Soviet and Chinese societies to a great extent, forcing rapid industrialization, collectivizing agriculture, expanding education and women's work, and imposing mass political terror - though by the 1980s both states were retreating from parts of that program.
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Drobinskiy's memoirs were recorded during de-Stalinization in the late 1950s but never published, so he could speak about the purges more openly than earlier - yet the fact they stayed unpublished shows the limits of that openness.
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Compare the Soviet and Chinese paths (Stalin's industrial push versus Mao's mass campaigns), or contrast official claims of equality, like Kollontai's, with the famine and repression described elsewhere.
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