In+Depth+Vacation

In Depth Vacation

In China and in Mexico, the countries had to battle against the economic imperialism of the West. China more so than Mexico as one can remember the Open Door Policy in China left the country divided between the Western powers economically. The governments were ineffective in monitoring the foreign influences in the markets. This would lead to domestic unrest from the people taking the hardest hits from this foreign interference in their market. The major social groups that were behind the revolutions were the ones that were not to benefit from Western economic imperialism. These are the people that are peasants or artisans, people who's jobs are jeopardized by the fast producing industrial powers of the world. There were also the returned soldiers that sympathized with the movements created would also severely weaken the governments. But there was also a matter of the Western educated that were not recieving the I see that in most of the revolutions, it is the lower class that really is pushing for reform. All three societies have a very minimal middle class which would prevent them from establishing a revolution as the French had years ago. They all ended up in different places in the international community as we see that Russia would isolate itself, especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union and that China would come to dominate industry. Mexico did not come out as clean from the revolution and is still struggling even today.
 * What internal and external forces weakened the governments of Mexico and China in the opening decades of the 20th century and unleashed the forces of revolution?**
 * What key social groups were behind the revolutions in Mexico, China, and Russia, and why were they so important in each case?**
 * What similarities and differences can you identify among these three early revolutions in the 20th century?**