The foundations of communist ideology
Marx and Engels
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Lenin's adaptations
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The Russian Revolution and the Soviet model
The revolution of 1917
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Stalin's Soviet Union
The spread of communism in Eastern Europe
Soviet expansion after WWII
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Yugoslavia: an alternative model
The Chinese Revolution
Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party
Mao's adaptation of communism
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Mao's China: reform and catastrophe
The Sino-Soviet split
Communism in Southeast Asia
Vietnam
Cambodia
Communism in Latin America
Cuba
Other Latin American communist movements
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Communism in Africa
Why communism spread
Common factors enabling the spread of communism
Primary sources
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Mao Zedong, Report on the Peasant Movement in Hunan (1927)
Fidel Castro, "History Will Absolve Me" (1953)
Key figures
Key events summary
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