Global Communism
- 1970s almost one-third of the worlds population lived in communist regimes
- Most significant was the Soviet Union and China
- After WW2 communist parties played important roles in Greece, France and Italy
- communism found expression primary in the second half of the 20th Century
Revolutions as a Path to Communism
- "New and better worlds could be constructed by human actions"
- in Russia, communists came to power on the back of revolutionary upheaval that took place within a single year.
- Communism triumphed in the ancient land of China
Building Socialism
- once in power, communist parties everywhere set about the construction of socialist societies
- Among the earliest and most revolutionary actions of these new communist regimes were efforts at liberating and mobilizing women
- to build socialism, China and Soviet Union, expropriated landlords' estates and redistributed
- Soviet Union and China defined Industrialization as a fundamental task of their regimes
East Versus West: A Global Divide and a Cold War
- Communist regimes brought revolutionary changes to the societies they governed
- Initial arena of the cold war was Europe
- Cuban missile crises gave concrete expression
- the arms race in nuclear weapons
- WW2 and cold war provided the context for the emergence of the United States as a Global Superpower
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