Revolution, Socialism, and Global Conflict: The rise and fall of world communism
In Chapter 21 Strayer discusses modern communism from 1917 to the present day. modern communism found in the political and philosophical world after being inspired by Karl Marx. The soviet union became the first to experience a communist revolution. by 1970 one third of the world population lived in a society governed by communist regimes. The communist movement got some of their ideas from the French revolution, which said that new and better worlds could be constructed by human actions. Once communists came to power they focused on socialist parties. This occured under the rule of Stalin in the soviet union. Communism launched a global conflict. The Soviet Union and the United States were the two most powerful forces, that had completely opposite views. This lead to many conflicts between the united states and the soviet union, instilling fear in many citizens on both ends.
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