Era of commercial capitalism and new world colonialism -- Beginnings of the third world in Eastern Europe -- Beginnings of the third world in Latin America -- Africa a peripheral area -- Middle East a peripheral area -- Asia an external area -- Era of industrial capitalism and waning colonialism -- Neocolonialism in Latin America -- Slave trade to legitimate trade in Africa -- Middle East enters the third world -- India enters the third world -- Era of monopoly capitalism and global colonialism -- Africa enters the third world -- China enters the third world -- Russia enters the third world -- The Japanese exception -- Beginnings of third world resistance--to 1914 -- Era of defensive monopoly capitalism, revolution and neocolonialism -- First global revolutionary wave, 1914-39: Initiative of the 1917 Russian Revolution -- First global revolutionary wave, 1914-1939: Global manifestations of revolution -- Second global revolutionary wave, 1939- : Initiative of the 1949 Chinese Revolution -- Second global revolutionary wave, 1939- : Global manifestations of revolution -- A common vision.