Detailed contents list

Prescribed Topics

Chapter 1 ~ Use of Source Material

• Documents
• Origin, Purpose, Value, and Limitation

Chapter 2 ~ The USSR and Stalin

• Excerpt from the Syllabus
• Struggle for Leadership
• Collectivization
• Five-Year Plan
• Nature of the Soviet State
• The Purges
• Foreign Relations

Chapter 3 ~ People's Republic of China

• Excerpt from the Syllabus
• The Chinese Civil War
• Political Unification
• The First Five Year Plan
• Mass Campaigns
• The Great Leap Forward
• Ideology

Additional Topics

Chapter 1 ~ Causes, Practices and Effects of War

• Excerpt from the Syllabus

Chapter 2 ~ The Rise and Rule of single-party States

• Excerpt from the Syllabus
• Fidel Castro
• Benito Mussolini

Regional Topics

Chapter 1 ~ Tsarist Russia to Communist USSR

• Excerpt from the Syllabus
• Timeline
• Glossary of Terms
• The 1905 Revolution
• The February 1917 Revolution
• The October 1917 Revolution
• The Russian Civil War

Chapter 2 ~ The Causes, Course, and Effect of World War One

• Excerpt from the Syllabus
• Timeline
• Glossary of Terms
• Causes
• Course
• Effect

Chapter 3 ~ The inter-war Years 1919-1939

• Excerpt from the Syllabus

Chapter 4 ~ Totalitarian Europe

• Excerpt from the Syllabus
• Benito Mussolini
• Josef Stalin
• Adolf Hitler

Chapter 5 ~ The Second World War

• Excerpt from the Syllabus
• Timeline
• Glossary of Terms
• Causes
• Course
• Effect

Indices

Contributors