World Revolution: Global Communism

Examination of the development of communism as an ideological doctrine, a form of state power, and a lived experience from the mid-19th century until the present. Topics include Karl Marx and the origins of modern communism in the mid-19th century; the Soviet Union; the postwar extension of communism to Eastern Europe; communism in China; the Cuban Revolution of 1959; African experiments with socialism in the 1960s; and the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia in the late 1970s. Applebaum