1917 : Russian Revolution
1921 : Communist Party founded in China
1929-1953 : Stalin’s rule of the Soviet Union
1934-1935 : Long March in China
1949 : Communist triumph in China
1950-1953 : Korean War
1958-1961 : China’s Great Leap Forward
1959 : Cuban Revolution
1965-1973 : U.S. Vietnam War
1966-1976 : China’s Cultural Revolution
1968 : Prague Spring
1979 : Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
1985-1991 : Gorbachev reforms the Soviet Union
1989 : Collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe
1991 : Disintegration of the Soviet Union
NATO & Warsaw Pact - A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.
Russian Revolution - A revolution in Russia in 1917–1918, also called the October Revolution, that overthrew the czar and brought the Bolsheviks, a Communist party led by Lenin, to power.
Bolsheviks - a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917.
Vladimir Lenin - The architect of Russia's 1917 Bolshevik revolution and the first leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. A prominent Marxist, Lenin was born in 1870 in Russia.
Russian Civil War - The Russian Civil War was a civil war fought from November 1917 until October 1922 between several groups in Russia. The main fighting was between the Red Army and the White Army. The Red Army was an army of communists. The White Army opposed the communists.
Guomindang - The political party founded in 1911 by Sun Yat-sen; it governed China under Chiang Kai-shek from 1928 until 1949 when the Communists took power and subsequently was the official ruling party of Taiwan.
Mao Zedong - Chinese Communist leader and theorist. A founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1921), he commanded troops in the Chinese Civil War (1927–1949) and proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949.
CCP - CCCP stood for Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик, which translated to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in English.
Joseph Stalin - Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1922–53; born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. His adoptive name Stalin means 'man of steel'. A really bad dude.
Zhenotdel - the women's department (zhenskii otdel) of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), was the department of the Russian Communist party devoted to women's affairs in the 1920s.
Collectivization - a policy of forced consolidation of individual peasant households into collective farms called “kolkhozes” as carried out by the Soviet government in the late 1920's - early 1930's.
Kulaks - a peasant in Russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labor. Emerging after the emancipation of serfs in the 19th century, the kulaks resisted Stalin's forced collectivization, but millions were arrested, exiled, or killed.
The Great Leap Forward & Cultural Revolution - Mao Zedong creating changes to gather more power over the country was the Cultural Revolution. This occurred after the Great Leap Forward which was a failure, and caused an economic crisis.
Great Purges/Terror - a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938.
Cuban Missile Crisis - A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. Get it? Bc ya know? k
Nikita Khrushchev - Soviet statesman; premier of the Soviet Union (1958–64). After Stalin's death he became first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1953–64) and initiated a policy to remove the influence of Stalin (1956).
Deng Xiaoping - a Chinese revolutionary and statesman. He was the paramount leader of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1992. (Economist/ somewhat harsh)
Perestroika - the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system. First proposed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 and actively promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev, perestroika originally referred to increased automation and labor efficiency, but came to entail greater awareness of economic markets and the ending of central planning.
Glasnost - the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985.
Mikhail Gorbachev - He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved.
1921 : Communist Party founded in China
1929-1953 : Stalin’s rule of the Soviet Union
1934-1935 : Long March in China
1949 : Communist triumph in China
1950-1953 : Korean War
1958-1961 : China’s Great Leap Forward
1959 : Cuban Revolution
1965-1973 : U.S. Vietnam War
1966-1976 : China’s Cultural Revolution
1968 : Prague Spring
1979 : Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
1985-1991 : Gorbachev reforms the Soviet Union
1989 : Collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe
1991 : Disintegration of the Soviet Union
NATO & Warsaw Pact - A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.
Russian Revolution - A revolution in Russia in 1917–1918, also called the October Revolution, that overthrew the czar and brought the Bolsheviks, a Communist party led by Lenin, to power.
Bolsheviks - a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917.
Vladimir Lenin - The architect of Russia's 1917 Bolshevik revolution and the first leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. A prominent Marxist, Lenin was born in 1870 in Russia.
Russian Civil War - The Russian Civil War was a civil war fought from November 1917 until October 1922 between several groups in Russia. The main fighting was between the Red Army and the White Army. The Red Army was an army of communists. The White Army opposed the communists.
Guomindang - The political party founded in 1911 by Sun Yat-sen; it governed China under Chiang Kai-shek from 1928 until 1949 when the Communists took power and subsequently was the official ruling party of Taiwan.
Mao Zedong - Chinese Communist leader and theorist. A founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1921), he commanded troops in the Chinese Civil War (1927–1949) and proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949.
CCP - CCCP stood for Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик, which translated to Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in English.
Joseph Stalin - Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR 1922–53; born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. His adoptive name Stalin means 'man of steel'. A really bad dude.
Zhenotdel - the women's department (zhenskii otdel) of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), was the department of the Russian Communist party devoted to women's affairs in the 1920s.
Collectivization - a policy of forced consolidation of individual peasant households into collective farms called “kolkhozes” as carried out by the Soviet government in the late 1920's - early 1930's.
Kulaks - a peasant in Russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labor. Emerging after the emancipation of serfs in the 19th century, the kulaks resisted Stalin's forced collectivization, but millions were arrested, exiled, or killed.
The Great Leap Forward & Cultural Revolution - Mao Zedong creating changes to gather more power over the country was the Cultural Revolution. This occurred after the Great Leap Forward which was a failure, and caused an economic crisis.
Great Purges/Terror - a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938.
Cuban Missile Crisis - A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. Get it? Bc ya know? k
Nikita Khrushchev - Soviet statesman; premier of the Soviet Union (1958–64). After Stalin's death he became first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1953–64) and initiated a policy to remove the influence of Stalin (1956).
Deng Xiaoping - a Chinese revolutionary and statesman. He was the paramount leader of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1992. (Economist/ somewhat harsh)
Perestroika - the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system. First proposed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 and actively promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev, perestroika originally referred to increased automation and labor efficiency, but came to entail greater awareness of economic markets and the ending of central planning.
Glasnost - the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985.
Mikhail Gorbachev - He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved.
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I. Global Communism
A. Marxism’s path to the future
B. Communist revolutions in agrarian societies
C. Communist parties outside of communist regimes
D. Internationalism
E. Conflict among communist states
II. Revolutions as a Path to Communism
A. Russia: Revolution in a Single Year
1. Romanov collapse in WWI, February 1917
2. Continued chaos under the Provisional Government
3. Bolsheviks seize power, October 1917
4. Lenin’s revision of Marxism
5. Civil War, 1918–1921
6. Stalin in Eastern Europe after WWII
B. China: A Prolonged Revolutionary Struggle
1. CCP not founded until 1921
2. Conflict with Chiang Kai-shek’s Guomindang
3. Chinese peasant villages
4. Mao Zedong
5. Appeal to women
6. Japanese invasion, 1937–1945
7. CCP triumphant in 1949
III. Building Socialism
A. Communist Feminism
1. Soviet state enacts reforms for women
2. Zhenotdel, 1919–1930
3. “Women can do anything”
4. Limits
B. Socialism in the Countryside
1. Peasants seize land in Russia, 1917
2. “Speak bitterness meetings” in China, 1949–1952
3. Collectivization and famines
C. Communism and Industrial Development
1. Anticapitalist but ardently pro-modernizing
2. Planned economies with an emphasis on industry
3. Urbanization, exploitation of the countryside, and rise of privileged bureaucrats and technocrats
4. Stalin accepted social changes, Mao did not
5. Great Leap Forward, 1958–1960
6. Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966–1969
7. Environmental consequences
D. The Search for Enemies
1. Old regime remnants and high-ranking party officials
2. Counterrevolutionary conspiracies?
3. Stalin’s Terror and Great Purges, 1936–1941
4. Mao’s Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution, 1966–1969
IV. East versus West: A Global Divide and a Cold War
A. Military Conflict and the Cold War
1. Europe divided by the Iron Curtain
2. “Hot wars” in Korea and Vietnam
3. Marxism versus Islam in Afghanistan
4. Cuba
B. Nuclear Standoff and Third World Rivalry
1. Fear of nuclear war
2. Aid and intervention in the Third World
C. The Cold War and the Superpowers
1. “Imperial” presidency, “national security state,” and “military-industrial complex”
2. American economic and cultural power
3. Soviet military spending and propaganda
4. Conflicts within the communist world
V. Paths to the End of Communism
A. China: Abandoning Communism and Maintaining the Party
1. Deng Xiaoping’s post-Mao reforms
2. Mao’s worst fears?
3. Message of Tiananmen Square, 1989
B. The Soviet Union: The Collapse of Communism and Country
1. Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika and glasnost
2. Nationalist movements
3. Collapse of regimes in Eastern Europe, 1989
4. USSR becomes Russia and 14 other states, 1991
VI. Reflections: To Judge or Judge Not
A. Are moral judgments on history appropriate?
B. Difficulty of discussing communism in the United States
C. Freedom or justice?
D. Modernization at what cost?
A. Marxism’s path to the future
B. Communist revolutions in agrarian societies
C. Communist parties outside of communist regimes
D. Internationalism
E. Conflict among communist states
II. Revolutions as a Path to Communism
A. Russia: Revolution in a Single Year
1. Romanov collapse in WWI, February 1917
2. Continued chaos under the Provisional Government
3. Bolsheviks seize power, October 1917
4. Lenin’s revision of Marxism
5. Civil War, 1918–1921
6. Stalin in Eastern Europe after WWII
B. China: A Prolonged Revolutionary Struggle
1. CCP not founded until 1921
2. Conflict with Chiang Kai-shek’s Guomindang
3. Chinese peasant villages
4. Mao Zedong
5. Appeal to women
6. Japanese invasion, 1937–1945
7. CCP triumphant in 1949
III. Building Socialism
A. Communist Feminism
1. Soviet state enacts reforms for women
2. Zhenotdel, 1919–1930
3. “Women can do anything”
4. Limits
B. Socialism in the Countryside
1. Peasants seize land in Russia, 1917
2. “Speak bitterness meetings” in China, 1949–1952
3. Collectivization and famines
C. Communism and Industrial Development
1. Anticapitalist but ardently pro-modernizing
2. Planned economies with an emphasis on industry
3. Urbanization, exploitation of the countryside, and rise of privileged bureaucrats and technocrats
4. Stalin accepted social changes, Mao did not
5. Great Leap Forward, 1958–1960
6. Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966–1969
7. Environmental consequences
D. The Search for Enemies
1. Old regime remnants and high-ranking party officials
2. Counterrevolutionary conspiracies?
3. Stalin’s Terror and Great Purges, 1936–1941
4. Mao’s Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution, 1966–1969
IV. East versus West: A Global Divide and a Cold War
A. Military Conflict and the Cold War
1. Europe divided by the Iron Curtain
2. “Hot wars” in Korea and Vietnam
3. Marxism versus Islam in Afghanistan
4. Cuba
B. Nuclear Standoff and Third World Rivalry
1. Fear of nuclear war
2. Aid and intervention in the Third World
C. The Cold War and the Superpowers
1. “Imperial” presidency, “national security state,” and “military-industrial complex”
2. American economic and cultural power
3. Soviet military spending and propaganda
4. Conflicts within the communist world
V. Paths to the End of Communism
A. China: Abandoning Communism and Maintaining the Party
1. Deng Xiaoping’s post-Mao reforms
2. Mao’s worst fears?
3. Message of Tiananmen Square, 1989
B. The Soviet Union: The Collapse of Communism and Country
1. Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika and glasnost
2. Nationalist movements
3. Collapse of regimes in Eastern Europe, 1989
4. USSR becomes Russia and 14 other states, 1991
VI. Reflections: To Judge or Judge Not
A. Are moral judgments on history appropriate?
B. Difficulty of discussing communism in the United States
C. Freedom or justice?
D. Modernization at what cost?