French Revolution and the Chinese Revolution

French Revolution and the Chinese Revolution

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun"(Ecclesiasters 1:9)
Throughout the period of 200 years, the French Revolution and the Chinese Revolution occurred. Although the two countries' citizens revolted at different place, and time for different purposes, those two revolutions have many simmilarities along the process of revolutions.
because of teh wak leadership of loyal family, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, the French cirizens revolted against the monarchy of France in 1789. After the loyal family was executed, the radical leaders of France like Robespierre started seize the power from the citizens. Since radical reader, Roboespierre, seized power, the atmosphere fo the France was changed. Along the Reign of Terror, the plan of eliminating the traitors of the country made by Robespierre, many innocent people were killed who were accused as traitors. After the mass chaos, Robespierre were killed since he killed too many people and brought chaos to the country
Different from the French Revolution, there was a significant fight between two parties, nationalists and Communists. After the fall of Chinese's last dynasty, two parties started to seizse the popularities of Chinese. However, Mao Zedong, the leader of communist party, gained popularities from the peasants by promising ownership of land. But both parties had to cooperate athe armies to beat the invasion of Japan from the east of China, Manchuria. The invasion is significant because foreign countries did not invade France during the revolution within the country. After the invasion, Mao seized country and China fell into communists.
As poor citizens revolted two countreies, there were many similarities. Both countries had poor economy to help citizens from starvation and taxes. But there are still many differences like Chinese getting invasion from Japanese and protecting country. And Russia had 10years of chaos to rebuild new society....

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