Ways of the World:A Brief Global History

First Edition

CHAPTER 22The Rise and Fall of World Communism

1917–Present

Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

Robert W. Strayer

Global Communism

Comparing Revolutionsas a Path to Communism

• Russia: Revolution in a Single Year• China: A Prolonged Revolutionary Struggle

Building Socialism in Two Countries• Communist Feminism• Socialism in the Countryside• Communism and Industrial Development• The Search for Enemies

East versus West:A Global Divide and a Cold War

• Military Conflict and the Cold War• Nuclear Standoff and Third World Rivalry• The United States: Superpower of the West, 1945–1975• The Communist World, 1950s–1970s

Comparing Pathsto the End of Communism

• China: Abandoning Communism and Maintaining the Party

• The Soviet Union: The Collapse of Communism and Country

Chapter 22 The Rise and Fall of World Communism,

1917–Present• Map 22.1 Russia in 1917 (p. 663)• Map 22.2 The Rise of Communism in China (p. 667)• Map 22.3 The Global Cold War (p. 676)• Map 22.4 The Collapse of the Soviet Empire (p. 686)• Lenin (p. 658)• Mao Zedong and the Long March (p. 665)• Mobilizing Women for Communism (p. 669)• Substituting Manpower for Machinery (p. 673)• The Hydrogen Bomb (p. 677)• Czechoslovakia, 1968 (p. 680)• After Communism in China (p. 683)