Communism

  • Lifelong Friends

    Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels meet in Paris and become lifelong friends.
  • The Communist Manifesto

    Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifest. This book presents an analytical approach to the class stuggle and the problems of capitalism.
  • Das Kapital Volume II

    The book "Das Kapital Volume 1" was published by Karl Marx as it proposes the idea o Labor Theory of Value, the Role of institution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
  • Das Capital Volume II

    The second of three volumes written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. This book presents he ideas about the marketplace, about the money owner, merchant, trader, buyer an trader.
  • Das Kapital Volume III

    The book "Das Kapital Volume III" is the third volume of Capital: Critique of Political Economy. I was written by Friedrich Engels based on Karl Marx's notes. Volume III is well known today for part 3 of seven pats as it talks about "The Law of the Tendency of the Rate to Profit and Fall".
  • Communist Part of the Soviet Union

    In 1912 the party was founded by the Bolsheviks, led by Vladmir Lenin who seized power in the aftermath of the October Revolution.
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    Russian Revoloution

    Dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the eventual rise of the Soviet Union. This led to the beginning of the Russian Civil War as well a the Creation of the Russian SFSR
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    The Russian Civil War

    This war was fought to determine who should control Russia. This war merged from a strong resistance to the new Bolshevik order as they believed the Bolsheviks were usurpers that were stealing power from them.
  • October Revoloution

    Led by the Bolsheviks, ended the Russian Provisional Government, was the creation of Soviet Russia and was the start of the Russian Civil War.
  • Russian Communist Party

    As the Bolsheviks were now in charge and in power, they changed their name into the more resounding Russian Communist Party
  • The Spartacus League

    A Marxist Revoloutionary movement in Germany during World War I. The Spartacus League transforms itself into the Communist party of Germany
  • Communist Party of China

    The Communist Party of China was formed in 1921 and was under Mao Zedong's control in 1927.
  • Vladmir Lenin's Death

    Lenin Dies but by then the Soviet Union had already become an established Communist country with the power over the country's economic, social and political affairs. Since Vladimir Lenin dies, Joseph Stalin takes his place and becomes leader of the USSR.
  • Mao Zedong Elected

    Mao Zedong officially becomes the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, as the elected Chairman of the Central Committee and the Politburo.
  • People's Republic of China

    The founding of the People's Republic of China was in 1949 by Chairman Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung).
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    The Great Leap Forward

    This was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China wich was Mao Zedong's attempt to 'modernise' China';s's economy so that by 1968 thy would have a economy that matched America.