Key Figures
He led the Bolshevik Party during the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Who is Vladimir Lenin
This document called for workers of the world to unite.
What is The Communist Manifesto
The publication of The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels.
What is 1848
This Russian revolution in 1917 led to the rise of communism in Russia.
What is the Bolshevik Revolution?
This wall symbolized the divide between capitalist West and communist East during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This Soviet leader succeeded Lenin and ruled with an iron fist.
Who is Joseph Stalin
Lenin wrote this 1917 pamphlet while in exile in Finland, calling for the overthrow of the Provisional Government.
What is The April Theses?
The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, seized power during the Russian Revolution in this year.
What is 1917
Mao's campaign to rapidly industrialize China, which led to mass starvation.
What is the Great Leap Forward
This Cold War event brought the world close to nuclear war in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
This Chinese leader led a communist revolution and became the first leader of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong
In this Lenin work from 1902, he argues that only a tightly organized party can lead the proletariat to revolution.
What is What Is to Be Done?
This year saw the founding of the People’s Republic of China under Mao Zedong.
What is 1949?
In 1966 Mao launched movement to purge “bourgeois” elements from Chinese society
What is The Cultural Revolution
The U.S. policy aimed at preventing the spread of communism.
What is containment
This German philosopher co-wrote The Communist Manifesto.
Who is Karl Marx
In this book Lenin argues that the state must be smashed, not taken over.
What is The State and Revolution
In this year, the Berlin Wall fell, symbolizing the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe.
What is 1989
This 1956 uprising in Eastern Europe was crushed by Soviet tanks, showing Moscow’s control over the Eastern Bloc
What is the Hungarian Revolution
This Cold War conflict ended with a divided Korea, one communist and one capitalist.
What is the Korean War
This leader introduced glasnost and perestroika reforms in the 1980s Soviet Union.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev
Marx analyzed capitalism and class struggle in this thesis
What is Das Kapital?
In this year, the Soviet Union officially dissolved, marking the end of the Cold War era.
What is 1991
This brutal campaign in the 1930s targeted perceived enemies of Stalin and led to millions being executed or sent to labor camps.
What is the Great Purge
This theory proposed that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would follow
What is the Domino Theory