Table of Contents

The Marxist-Leninist concept of history; the Middle Ages - the age of the feudal system; from feudalism to capitalism - the Reformation to the Thirty Years War; from feudalism to capitalism - the age of absolutism; the rise of bourgeois capitalism - the road to unification; from competitive to monopoly capitalism - the empire; the era of state-monopolist capitalism - the Weimar Republic; the era of state-monopoly capitalism - the Fascist period; the socialist-imperialist confrontation - the breakup of Germany, 1945-1949.