Towards a global history of communism / Stephen A. Smith
Part 1. Ideology. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on communism / Paresh Chattopadhyay
Lenin and Bolshevism / Lars T. Lih
Stalin and Stalinism / Kevin McDermott
Mao and Maoism / Timothy Cheek
Part 2. Global moments. 1919 / Jean-François Fayet
1936 / Tim Rees
1956 / Sergey Radchenko
1968 / Maud Anne Bracke
1989 / Matthias Middell
Part 3. Global communism. The Comintern / Alexander Vatlin and Stephen A. Smith
Communism in Eastern Europe / Pavel Kolář
Communism in China, 1900-2010 / Yang Kuisong and Stephen A. Smith
Communism in South East Asia / Anna Belogurova
Communism in Latin America / Mike Gonzalez
Communism in the Islamic world / Anne Alexander
Communism in Africa / Allison Drew
Part 4. Communist polities and economies. Political and economic relations between communist states / Balázs Szalontai
Averting Armageddon : the communist peace movement, 1948-1956 / Geoffrey Roberts
The cult of personality and symbolic politics / Daniel Leese
Communist revolution and political terror / Julia C. Strauss
Popular opinion under communist regimes / Sheila Fitzpatrick
Communism and economic modernization / Mark Harrison
Collectivization and famine / Felix Wemheuer
The politics of plenty : consumerism in communist societies / Paul Betts
Part 5. Communism and social relations. The life of a communist militant / Marco Albeltaro
Rural life / Jeremy Brown
Workers under communism : romance and reality / Tuong Vu
Communism and women / Donna Harsch
Privilege and inequality in communist society / Donald Filtzer
Nation-making and national conflict under communism / Adrienne Lynn Edgar
Part 6. Communism and culture. Cultural revolution / Richard King
Communism and the artistic intelligentsia / Mark Gamsa
Popular culture / Dean Vuletic
Religion under communism / Richard Madsen
Sport under communism / Robert Edelman, Anke Hilbrenner and Susan Brownell.