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Chapter 47: Triumph of the Bolsheviks — World History 101

How Lenin, Trotsky, and a small band of Marxist revolutionaries overthrew the Russian tsar, survived a civil war, and built the world’s first state organised around Communist ideology.
Chapter 48: The Three Ages of Modern China — World History 101

From the fall of the Qing dynasty to the founding of the People’s Republic — three political systems in less than four decades, and the rise of a twenty-first century superpower.
Chapter 60: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union — World History 101

Stagnation, glasnost, perestroika, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the August 1991 coup that ended the USSR.