Mao Zedong
China was extremely behind in terms of industrialization especially in comparison to the west. Half of China became irrigated-Industrial output climbed 13-fold. The railway network doubled-Dramatic lowering of illiteracy - due to many of the young children being put into daycares while their parents went to work, used to motivate the people to enjoy their work and perform better, but this is a bonus side effect. Near universal healthcare was established, another bonus side effect of the reforms used to motivate the common people to work hard and become the ideal Communist worker. Life expectancy rose. Many factories were built, and the national wage increased at a rate of 9% a year, showing that China was more successful in terms of promoting communism that Russia was, because the national wage in Russia fell. However, this might be because China is somewhat of a more collectivist society - meaning that they put the greater good of the group before the individual needs, while western countries tend to be more individualist. Russia’s individualist societies and characteristics are played out by the people who basically ratted on each other for being “anti-Communist” as an attempt to either get rid of them or more up in society.