It caused the civil war. The industrial revolution in the North, during the first few decades of the 19th century, brought about a machine age economy that relied on wage laborers, not slaves.
The Chinese Nationalists and the Chinese Communists united forces in 1926 to defeat the various war lords throughout the countryside of China who were keeping China in a state of semi-feudal anarchy.
One year later, Jiang Jie-Shi (CKS) and the Nationalists would stab the communists in the back in Shanghai, starting what would be a 20+ year-long civil war.
the soviet union broke into 15 sovereign states
