A Comparative Study of Modernization between China and the Soviet Union:Taking the Reforms of China and the Soviet Union in the 1980s as an Example
The practice of socialist development demonstrates that the vitality of the model of the Soviet Union had been ex-hausted by the 1970s.In order to catch up with the pace of modernization,both China and the Soviet Union must reform their own original socialist models.In 1977,Deng Xiaoping began to contemplate reforms after his comeback.In 1978,the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee officially sounded the horn of reform.The Soviet Union began its reform after Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union(CPSU).When the Soviet Union initiated the reform,China already had some successful experiences,but the CPSU did not absorb them.China and the Soviet Union had taken different paths of reform with significant differences in their treatment of tradi-tional socialist theory,goals and means of economic reform and modernization,political system arrangements and internation-al relations,which naturally resulted in different outcomes.China has broken through the model of the Soviet Union in both theory and practice and opened up a new path to modernization.The reform of the Soviet Union did not improve economic conditions and people's living standards.The CPSU proposed many new theories and concepts but without public recognition,and ultimately,lost its political power.
model of the Soviet Unionnew path to modernizationreforms of China and the Soviet Unioncomparison of modernization between China and the Soviet UnionDeng XiaopingGorbachev
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