{"id":5891,"date":"2025-05-18T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=5891"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T16:47:50","slug":"the-rise-of-mao-and-castro-compared-and-contrasted-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/the-rise-of-mao-and-castro-compared-and-contrasted-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of Mao and Castro: Compared and Contrasted (podcast)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/creators.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/russel-tarr\/episodes\/The-rise-of-Mao-and-Castro-comparisons-and-contrasts-e3155m9\">A new podcast for IBDP History Revision<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conditions &gt; economic factors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conditions &gt; social division<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conditions &gt; impact of war<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conditions &gt; weakness of political system<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Methods &gt; persuasion and propaganda<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Methods &gt; coercion and force<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Methods &gt; the role of leaders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Methods &gt; Ideology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &gt; economic factors Conditions &gt; social division Conditions &gt; impact of war Conditions &gt; weakness of political system&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/the-rise-of-mao-and-castro-compared-and-contrasted-podcast\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-1x1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5892,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5891\/revisions\/5892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}