Genealogy Charts
The Internationals: a Genealogy of the Socialist Movement
From the First International of 1864 to the late twentieth century: the splits and regroupings of international socialism across five currents, anarchist, social democratic, the common trunk, communist, and dissident communist. Click a node to open its dictionary entry.
Open the chart → 1870–1942Currents of Russian Marxism
Sixty years of splits and mergers in Russian Marxism, from Plekhanov's Emancipation of Labour group (1883) to the Fourth International (1938). Click a node to open its dictionary entry or the reference document.
Open the chart → 1959–1992Socialist economies: decolonization and state-led development
Different paths of economic reorganization after revolution or independence. Nationalization, land reform and oil finance are distinct institutions. Lines trace a country’s changes, not direct transmission between neighboring columns.
Open the chart → 1924–1991Socialist economies: state-building, isolation and war
Connect cooperative herding, postwar planning, land reform and state enterprise to national histories. Arrows trace changes and context within each country, not inheritance merely from sharing a column. Cambodia’s 1975–1979 regime is distinguished from later reconstruction.
Open the chart → 1918–1991Socialist economies: planning, self-management and reform
Compare national planning and different reform paths. Solid lines trace changes within a trajectory; dotted lines mark influence. Countries sharing a column do not necessarily share a lineage. Open entries for institutions, outcomes, limitations and sources.
Open the chart → 1917–1991The Genealogy of Soviet Foreign Policy
From the world-revolution diplomacy of 1917, when the commissar promised to issue a few proclamations and shut up shop, to the Sinatra Doctrine of 1989: a century of Soviet foreign policy in four parallel lines - the succession of foreign ministers, the official lines and doctrines, the politics of revolution and bloc, and the turning points of treaties and crises. Click a node to open the person, term, event or document.
Open the chart → 1912–1993The Course of Soviet Nationality Policy
From the formulation of national self-determination in 1914 to the dissolution of the union in 1991: how the Soviet state handled the national question
Open the chart → 1890–1993The Evolution of Soviet State Ideology
A century of Soviet state ideology, from the formation of the party's philosophy in the 1890s to the dissolution of 1991: doctrine, political line, constitutional declarations, and the alternatives raised against them. Click a node to open its dictionary entry or the reference document.
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