| 7 | PREFACE |
| Part One | |
| THE ANCIENT WORLD | |
| 9 | Chapter One • PRIMITIVE SOCIETY |
| Chapter Two • THE MIDDLE EAST | |
| 17 | EGYPT |
| 24 | BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA |
| 30 | THE HITTITE KINGDOM |
| 31 | URARTU |
| 34 | PHOENICIA |
| 36 | PALESTINE |
| 37 | PERSIA |
| Chapter Three • THE ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS OF INDIA AND CHINA | |
| 41 | INDIA |
| 45 | ANCIENT CHINA |
| 51 | Chapter Four • PRE-CLASSICAL GREECE |
| 60 | Chapter Five • GREECE IN THE FIFTH AND FOURTH CENTURIES B.C. THE CRISIS IN GREEK SOCIETY |
| 81 | Chapter Six • THE RISE OF MACEDONIA AND THE EMPIRE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT |
| Chapter Seven • THE ROMAN REPUBLIC | |
| 87 | THE EARLY PERIOD |
| 90 | THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC |
| 93 | ROME’S STRUGGLE FOR DOMINATION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN |
| 99 | CRISIS OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC |
| Chapter Eight • IMPERIAL ROME | |
| 112 | THE EARLY PERIOD |
| 117 | THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE EMPIRE |
| Part Two | |
| THE MIDDLE AGES | |
| 127 | [introduction.] |
| 131 | Chapter One • THE TRANSITION TO FEUDALISM AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE EARLY FEUDAL STATES IN EUROPE |
| 151 | Chapter Two • THE EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF FEUDAL RELATIONS IN EASTERN, SOUTH-EASTERN AND SOUTHERN ASIA |
| 168 | Chapter Three • KIEV RUS |
| 181 | Chapter Four • THE TRANSITION TO FEUDALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA |
| 194 | Chapter Five • WESTERN EUROPE IN THE ELEVENTH-FIFTEENTH CENTURIES |
| 217 | Chapter Six • THE STRUGGLE OF THE PEOPLES OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE, CHINA, CENTRAL ASIA AND TRANSCAUCASIA AGAINST FOREIGN INVASION IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY |
| 224 | Chapter Seven • THE EMERGENCE OF A UNITED RUSSIAN STATE |
| 232 | Chapter Eight • THE EMERGENCE OF EARLY CAPITALISM IN WESTERN EUROPE |
| 246 | Chapter Nine • AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE EUROPEAN CONQUEST |
| 253 | Chapter Ten • THE CENTRALISED RUSSIAN STATE FROM THE LATE FIFTEENTH TO THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. THE PEASANT WAR |
| 265 | Chapter Eleven • ASIA IN THE SIXTEENTH-SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES |
| Part Three | |
| THE MODERN PERIOD | |
| 279 | Chapter One • THE ENGLISH BOURGEOIS REVOLUTION. FEUDAL ABSOLUTISM IN SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE |
| 294 | Chapter Two • ABSOLUTISM IN RUSSIA |
| 313 | Chapter Three • ENGLAND IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. THE NORTH AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE |
| 324 | Chapter Four • THE PEOPLES OF ASIA IN THE SEVENTEENTH-EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES |
| 351 | Chapter Five • THE FRENCH REVOLUTION |
| 372 | Chapter Six • EUROPE DURING THE NAPOLEONIC WARS |
| 388 | Chapter Seven • REACTION IN EUROPE AND THE REVOLUTIONARY LIBERATION MOVEMENTS OF THE 1820s AND 1830s |
| 401 | Chapter Eight • THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALISM IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. THE GROWTH OF THE WORKING-CLASS MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISM |
| 413 | Chapter Nine • REVOLUTIONARY FERMENT IN 1848–1849 |
| 428 | Chapter Ten • RUSSIA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1800–1860) |
| 438 | Chapter Eleven • POPULAR REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS IN ASIA |
| 471 | Chapter Twelve • NATIONAL BOURGEOIS MOVEMENTS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA |
| 488 | Chapter Thirteen • THE PARIS COMMUNE–1871 |
| 500 | Chapter Fourteen • THE CAPITALIST WORLD AT THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY |
| 517 | Chapter Fifteen • RUSSIA AFTER THE ABOLITION OF SERFDOM—FROM REFORM TO REVOLUTION |
| 532 | Chapter Sixteen • IMPERIALISM, THE HIGHEST AND LAST STAGE OF CAPITALISM |
| 541 | Chapter Seventeen • RUSSIA BECOMES THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT. THE AWAKENING OF ASIA |
| 570 | Chapter Eighteen • THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE OVERTHROW OF TSARISM IN RUSSIA |
| 588 | CHRONICLE OF EVENTS |
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