Genealogy Charts

1860–1990

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.

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1870–1942

Currents 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.

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1917–1991

The 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.

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1912–1993

The 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

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1890–1993

The 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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