A new podcast for IBDP History Revision.

Compares and contrasts the methods and conditions which led to the rise to power of Mao in China (1949) and Castro in Cuba (1959), focusing on such themes as:

Conditions > economic factors

Conditions > social division

Conditions > impact of war

Conditions > weakness of political system

Methods > persuasion and propaganda

Methods > coercion and force

Methods > the role of leaders

Methods > Ideology