One way in which joseph stalin’s five-year plans and mao zedong’s great leap forward are similar is that both plans were

(4) attempts to increase agricultural and industrial production.

Explanation:

According to a different source, the options that come with this question are:

(1) efforts to reduce human rights violations.

(2) policies to improve relations with the West.

(3) methods used to control population growth.

(4) attempts to increase agricultural and industrial production.

Both of these plans were attempts to increase agricultural and industrial production. Both Stalin and Zedong believed that communism was the optimal strategy to distribute goods and ensure that everyone in the country had enough resources to have a healthy life. In order for this to be achieved, however, both the Soviet Union and China needed to become more modern and better producers. Both of these programs were intended to achieve this goal.

answer: both considered peasants valued members of society.

explanation: the ancient chinese and indian empires were large asian empires that had the same problems with other big empires, they had to work hard and sometimes fight in order to keep them united, they both relied heavily on their capacity to trade and to send strange and rare items to europe, and had the father as the head of the house hold in both societies, but they didn´t considered pleasants as valued members of their society, they were the bottom of the social pyramid in both of their societies.