Robert W. Strayer
Ways of the World:
A Brief Global History
First Edition
CHAPTER 22
The Rise and Fall of World Communism
1917–Present
Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s
Global Communism
Comparing Revolutions
as a Path to Communism
• Russia: Revolution in a Single Year
• China: A Prolonged Revolutionary Struggle
Building Socialism in Two Countries
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Communist Feminism
Socialism in the Countryside
Communism and Industrial Development
The Search for Enemies
East versus West:
A Global Divide and a Cold War
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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 Paths
to 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
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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)