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II. |
Revolutions as a
Path to Communism |
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A. |
Russia:
Revolution in a Single Year |
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1. |
Romanov collapse in WWI, February 1917 |
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2. |
Continued chaos under the Provisional Government |
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3. |
Bolsheviks seize power, October 1917 |
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4. |
Lenin’s revision of Marxism |
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5. |
Civil War, 1918–1921 |
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6. |
Stalin in
Eastern Europe
after WWII |
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B. |
China: A
Prolonged Revolutionary Struggle |
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1. |
CCP not founded until 1921 |
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2. |
Conflict with Chiang Kai-shek’s Guomindang |
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3. |
Chinese peasant villages |
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4. |
Mao Zedong |
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5. |
Appeal to women |
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6. |
Japanese invasion, 1937–1945 |
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7. |
CCP triumphant in 1949 |
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III. |
Building
Socialism |
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A. |
Communist
Feminism |
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1. |
Soviet state enacts reforms for women |
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2. |
Zhenotdel, 1919–1930 |
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3. |
“Women can do anything” |
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4. |
Limits |
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B. |
Socialism in the
Countryside |
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1. |
Peasants seize land in
Russia, 1917 |
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2. |
“Speak bitterness meetings” in
China, 1949–1952 |
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3. |
Collectivization and famines |
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C. |
Communism and
Industrial Development |
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1. |
Anticapitalist but ardently pro-modernizing |
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2. |
Planned economies with an emphasis on industry |
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3. |
Urbanization, exploitation of the
countryside, and rise of privileged bureaucrats and technocrats |
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4. |
Stalin accepted social changes, Mao did not |
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5. |
Great Leap Forward, 1958–1960 |
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6. |
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966–1969 |
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7. |
Environmental consequences |
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D. |
The Search for
Enemies |
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1. |
Old regime remnants and high-ranking party officials |
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2. |
Counterrevolutionary conspiracies? |
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3. |
Stalin’s Terror and Great Purges, 1936–1941 |
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4. |
Mao’s Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution, 1966–1969 |
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IV. |
East versus
West: A Global Divide and a Cold War |
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A. |
Military Conflict
and the Cold War |
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1. |
Europe divided by the
Iron Curtain |
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2. |
“Hot wars” in
Korea
and
Vietnam |
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3. |
Marxism versus Islam in
Afghanistan |
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4. |
Cuba |
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B. |
Nuclear Standoff
and
Third World Rivalry |
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1. |
Fear of nuclear war |
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2. |
Aid and intervention in the
Third
World |
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C. |
The Cold War and
the Superpowers |
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1. |
“Imperial” presidency, “national security state,” and
“military-industrial complex” |
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2. |
American economic and cultural power |
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3. |
Soviet military spending and propaganda |
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4. |
Conflicts within the communist world |
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V. |
Paths to the End
of Communism |
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A. |
China: Abandoning
Communism and Maintaining the Party |
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1. |
Deng Xiaoping’s post-Mao reforms |
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2. |
Mao’s worst fears? |
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3. |
Message of
Tiananmen Square,
1989 |
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B. |
The
Soviet Union: The Collapse of Communism and Country |
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1. |
Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika and glasnost |
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2. |
Nationalist movements |
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3. |
Collapse of regimes in
Eastern Europe, 1989 |
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4. |
USSR
becomes
Russia
and 14 other states, 1991 |