| Chapter One | |
| OCTOBER 1917 REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA USHERS IN NEW ERA IN HISTORY OF MANKIND | |
| 7 | PREPARATION AND VICTORY OF THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA |
| 23 | CIVIL WAR IN RUSSIA |
| 34 | SOVIET RUSSIA STANDS FOR PEACE |
| Chapter Two | |
| 42 | FIRST WORLD WAR: END AND AFTERMATH. REDIVISION OF THE WORLD |
| Chapter Three | |
| BUILDING SOCIALISM IN THE USSR | |
| 54 | ECONOMIC RECOVERY |
| 61 | UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS: A MULTINATIONAL STATE |
| 66 | LENIN’S BEHESTS |
| 71 | USSR BECOMES INDUSTRIAL POWER |
| 83 | SOCIALIST RECONSTRUCTION IN SOVIET RURAL AREAS |
| 93 | CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN THE USSR |
| 99 | SOCIALISM TRIUMPHS IN THE USSR |
| 109 | THE FIGHT FOR COLLECTIVE SECURITY |
| Chapter Four | |
| THE CAPITALIST WORLD BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS | |
| 113 | [introduction.] |
| 113 | 1917–1923: THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT GATHERS MOMENTUM |
| 128 | PARTIAL STABILISATION OF CAPITALISM (1924–1929) |
| 134 | PARTIAL STABILISATION OF CAPITALISM ENDS. GROWING THREAT OF NEW WORLD WAR (1929–1939) |
| Chapter Five | |
| THE NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT OF THE PEOPLES OF ASIA, AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS | |
| 156 | LIBERATION MOVEMENT GATHERS MOMENTUM IN ASIA AND AFRICA |
| 193 | THE COUNTRIES OF ASIA AND AFRICA IN 1924–1939 |
| 230 | THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE OF THE PEOPLES OF LATIN AMERICA, 1918–1939 |
| Chapter Six | |
| 246 | THE SECOND WORLD WAR. THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE |
| Chapter Seven | |
| THE SOVIET UNION AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR. COMMUNIST CONSTRUCTION | |
| 282 | POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION |
| 287 | VICTORY: COMPLETE AND FINAL |
| 297 | COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAMME OF COMMUNIST CONSTRUCTION |
| Chapter Eight | |
| THE WORLD SOCIALIST SYSTEM | |
| 313 | A NEW WAY OF LIFE |
| 326 | BUILDING SOCIALISM |
| 361 | THE WORLD SOCIALIST COMMUNITY |
| Chapter Nine | |
| 368 | THE USA AND THE CAPITALIST COUNTRIES OF EUROPE AFTER THE WAR. AGGRESSIVE BLOCS EMERGE |
| Chapter Ten | |
| INTENSIFICATION OF THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST STRUGGLE OF THE PEOPLES OF ASIA, AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA. DISINTEGRATION OF THE COLONIAL SYSTEM | |
| 406 | Consequences of the Second World War and the Colonial Countries |
| 408 | COUNTRIES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA WIN INDEPENDENCE |
| 424 | PEOPLES OF MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA WAGE WINNING NATIONAL LIBERATION STRUGGLE |
| 437 | THE PEOPLES OF TROPICAL AND SOUTH AFRICA ON THE WAY TO LIBERATION |
| 449 | ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE LIBERATED COUNTRIES OF ASIA AND AFRICA |
| 464 | THE PEOPLES OF LATIN AMERICA STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPERIALISM |
| Chapter Eleven | |
| 476 | FORCES OF PEACE VERSUS FORCES OF WAR |
| 484 | CONCLUSION |
| 491 | CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE |
| 507 | ÑAME INDEX |
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