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Charts
Understanding the Baltic Revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union requires more than a timeline of events. These charts provide political, economic, and historical context drawn from my lectures, with particular attention to the Baltic experience and perspectives often missing from broader accounts of Soviet history.
These are free to use for educational purposes.
(Charts have not been generated by AI)
Economic-Political Ideology Definitions
Click on each below to view full screen. The slides below are individual highlights from various presentations.
- Definitions (Recommended for grades 6 and above.)
- Evolution of Capitalism (7 slides) (Recommended for High school and above.)
- Evolution of Communism (7 slides) (Recommended for High school and above.)
What is Communism?
Timeline of Capitalism and Communism
Evolution of Capitalism
Evolution of Capitalism – Merchant
Evolution of Capitalism – Industrial
Evolution of Capitalism – Corporate
Evolution of Capitalism – Managed
Evolution of Capitalism – Neoliberal
Evolution of Capitalism – Digital
Evolution of Communism
Evolution of Communism – Utopian
Evolution of Communism – Marxist
Evolution of Communism – Leninist
Evolution of Communism – Maoist
Evolution of Communism – Reform
Evolution of Communism – Modern
The Evolution of Lithuania’s Economic Framework
Click on each below to view full screen. The slides below are details from a presentation about the Lithuanian economy.
- High-level political-economic framework stages of the Lithuanian State (4 slides) (Recommended for High school level and above.)
- More detailed descriptions of the evolution of Lithuania’s economic framework (9 slides) (Recommended for High school level and above.)
Political-Economic Framwork Stages of the Lithuanian State ~2000 BCE – 1000 CE
Political-Economic Framwork Stages of the Lithuanian State 1000 – 1795
Political-Economic Framwork Stages of the Lithuanian State 1795 – 1940
Political-Economic Framwork Stages of the Lithuanian State 1940 – Present
Evolution of Lithuania’s Economic Framework
Evolution of Lithuania’s Economic Framework – Early Kingdom
Evolution of Lithuania’s Economic Framework – Commonwealth Era
Evolution of Lithuania’s Economic Framework – Tsrist Period
Evolution of Lithuania’s Economic Framework – Interwar
Evolution of Lithuania’s Economic Framework – Soviet
Evolution of Lithuania’s Economic Framework – Transition
Evolution of Lithuania’s Economic Framework – EU Integration
Evolution of Lithuania’s Economic Framework – Modern Era
The Spread of Marxist-Leninist Communism
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Spread of Marxist-Leninist Communist Countries
How Countries Became Communist
How Russia Incorporated Countries into the USSR
The Soviet Blueprint for Annexation
Soviet Political Evolution of Collapse
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- From a presentation about how Mikhail Gorbachev’s Perestroika (restructuring) triggered the collapse of the USSR (4 slides) (Recommended for High school level and above.)
- Detailed presentation about how post-Stalin economic reforms contributed to the USSR’s collapse (6 slides) (Recommended for High school level and above.)
Soviet Union Power Pyramid
How Gorbachev Broke the Soviet Power Pyramid
Breaking the Soviet Power Pyramid Triggered the Collapse of the USSR
Soviet Power No Longer a Pyramid in 1991 – the Collapse of the USSR accelerates
How Economic Reforms Contributed to the USSR Collapse
How Economic Reforms Contributed to the USSR Collapse 1953-1964
How Economic Reforms Contributed to the USSR Collapse 1965-1970
How Economic Reforms Contributed to the USSR Collapse 1970-1982
How Economic Reforms Contributed to the USSR Collapse 1982-1985
How Economic Reforms Contributed to the USSR Collapse 1985-1991
Legitimacy of Lithuanian Statehood
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Legitimacy of Lithuanian Statehood
The Soviet Blueprint for Annexation
The Soviet Blueprint for Soviet Annexation Step One
The Soviet Blueprint for Annexation Step Two
The Soviet Blueprint for Annexation Step Three
The Soviet Blueprint for Annexation Step Four
The Soviet Blueprint for Annexation Step Five
The Soviet Blueprint for Annexation Map
Soviet Repression
Soviet Repression Resistance
Soviet Annexation Interrrupted by German Nazi Invasion
The Holocaust in Lithuania
Soviet Re-Occupation
Soviet Re-Occupation Means Repression Continues
Lithuanian Anti-Soviet Resistance
Lithuanian Anti-Soviet Resistance and the Politics of Memory
Legal Continuity of the Lithuanian State Final Outcome
Who Officially Recognized Lithuanian Independence and When
Lithuanian Statehood Facts
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Lithuanian Government Structure
