Chapter 21 (Revolution, Socialism, and Global Conflict)


  • European socialist came to believe that they could achieve their goals peacefully and through the democratic process, those who defined themselves as communists in the twentieth century disdained such reformism and advocated uncompromising revolution as the only possible route to a socialist future.
  • By the 1970s almost one third of the worlds population lived in societies governed by communist regimes by far the most significant were the Soviet Union, the world's largest country in size and China  
  • Communist movements of the Twentieth century drew on the mystique of the earlier French Revolution , which suggested that new and better worlds would constructed by human actions 

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