Introduction Juliane Fürst, Silvio Pons and Mark Selden; 1. The Global 1968 and international communism Robert Gildea; 2. The Vietnam War as a world event Sophie Quinn-Judge and Marilyn Young; 3. The Soviet Union and the global Cold War Artemy Kalinovsky; 4. Marxist revolutions and regimes in Latin America and Africa in the 1970s Piero Gleijeses; 5. The aging pioneer: late Soviet Socialist society, its challenges and challengers Juliane Fürst and Stephen Bittner; 6. Communist propaganda and media in the era of the Cold War Stephen Lovell; 7. The zones of late Socialist literature Polly Jones; 8. Visualizing the Socialist public sphere Reuben Fowkes; 9. The decline of Soviet-type economies André Steiner; 10. Reform Communism Silvio Pons and Michele Di Donato; 11. Cambodia: detonator of communism's implosion Ben Kiernan; 12. Make some get rich first. State consumerism and private enterprise in the creation of postsocialist China Karl Gerth; 13. Gorbachev's reforms and the Soviet crisis Mark Kramer; 14. Communism and religion Stephen A. Smith; 15. Human rights and communism Mark Bradley; 16. Feminism, communism, and global Socialism, 1968-1995: encounters and entanglements Celia Donert; 17. The communist and post-socialist gender order in China and Russia Marko Dumancic; 18. Communism and environment Douglas Weiner; [...]ope's '1989' in global context James Mark and Tobias Rupprecht; 20. The collapse of the Soviet Union Vladislav Zubok; 21. Thirty years after: the end of European communism in historical perspective Charles Maier; 22. Communism and nationalism in the Soviet Union and Russia Nikolai Mitrokhin; 23. China's human development after Socialism Carl Riskin; 24. China's post-Socialist transformation and global resurgence: political economy and geopolitics Mark Selden and Ho fung Hung; 25. Legacies of communism. Comparative remarks Jan Behrends; 26. Cultural memories of communism Jan Plamper; Index.