| A MAP OF TIME |
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| 1917 | Russian Revolution |
| 1921 | Founding of Chinese Communist Party |
| 1929–1953 | Stalin in power in Soviet Union |
| 1934–1935 | Long March in China |
| 1945–1950 | Imposition of communist regimes in Eastern Europe |
| 1949 | Communist triumph in China |
| 1950–1953 | Korean War |
| 1958–1961 | China’s Great Leap Forward and massive famine |
| 1959 | Cuban Revolution |
| 1962 | Cuban missile crisis |
| 1965–1973 | U.S.-Vietnam war |
| 1966–1976 | China’s Cultural Revolution |
| 1968 | Prague Spring: communist reform movement in Czechoslovakia |
| 1975–1979 | Genocide in communist Cambodia |
| 1976–early 1990s | Deng Xiaoping and beginnings of communist reforms in China |
| 1979 | Soviet invasion of Afghanistan |
| 1985–1991 | Gorbachev reforms in USSR |
| 1989 | Collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe |
| 1991 | Disintegration of Soviet Union |
| 1990s | Economic contraction in the former Soviet Union and economic expansion in China |
| 2007–2009 | Communist North Korea acquires nuclear weapons |
| 2008 | Fidel Castro steps down as leader of communist Cuba |
| 2014 | United States proposes to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba |