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Authors: David Priestland
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hybrid approach towards Asia,
238–9
impact of brother’s execution,
74–5
impact on of Chernyshevskii’s novel,
75
New Economic Policy,
99–100
and radicalism in the West,
113
in St Petersburg 1893,
75
Stalin’s work with before 1917,
138
State and Revolution,
85–6
and war communism,
97
workers’ democracy and ‘class struggle’,
90–92
on workers running the state,
85–6
writers influencing,
79
Li Dazhao,
241–2
liberalism,
xv–xvi
during the Cold War,
231
in USSR during Second World War,
206–7
liberalization,
see
economic reforms
literature, 1950s,
339–41
Lithuania,
548
Long March,
255
Low Intensity Conflict,
528–31
Lukács, György,
110–11
Lyon silk-workers uprising,
32–3
Lysenko, Trofim,
281
Malaia Zemlia, cult of,
430
Malaysia,
271–2
Malraux, André,
197
Man of Straw
(Mann),
109
managers
as evading central control,
173–4
self-criticism by,
149–50
theft of economy by,
541
Mann, Heinrich,
109
Manufacture of Paris,
11
Mao Zedong
army service,
251
background,
249
compared to Stalin,
250
controlled liberalization attempt,
352–3
cult of,
367–8
Cultural Revolution,
358–69
education,
251
foundation of People’s Republic,
266
Great Leap Forward,
353–7
guerrilla ‘people’s war’,
253–4
leadership during Second World War,
256
Long March,
255
Marxism of,
257–8
meeting with Nixon 1972,
450
as private figure,
250–51
rectification,
259–61
response to Khrushchev and Secret Speech,
351
revolutionary role for the peasantry,
252–3
solutions for China’s decline,
251–2
visit to USSR 1949,
294–6
Xiang River Review
(journal),
235
in the Yan’an region of China,
256–7
Maoism
in Albania,
409
attraction of for New Left,
464
Marcos, Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente,
568–9
Marcuse, Herbert,
457–8
Maréchal, Sylvain,
7
Marighella, Carlos,
467
Markovič, Ante,
551
Marquet, Albert,
197
Martin, Kingsley,
196
Marx, Karl
collaboration with Engels,
26–7
compared to Fourier,
28
early influences,
23–4
economics as force for Communism,
38–9
on failure of the Jacobins,
17
First International,
41–2
freedom as primary interest,
27
high Romanticism of as student,
24–5
initial radicalism,
25–6
lessons learned from Jacobins,
15
originality of,
17–18
praise for capitalism and globalization,
29–30
Prometheanism,
xxiii–xxiv
renewed interest in,
xvi
and revolution(s) across Europe 1847–9,
34
Marxism
adaptation of ideas from,
xxi
as adopted by Russian socialists,
72–3
Bernstein’s revisionism,
55–7
and the church,
45
conflict with anarchism,
41–2
in Cuba,
386–9
difficulties embedding in Asia,
243–4
economic life under,
28
as emotional sustenance,
265
in Ethiopia, influence from the West,
482
foreign affairs as destroying unity,
58–60
forms of,
xxiv–xxv
foundational flaw of,
30–31
foundations of,
27–31
in Germany,
46
and imperialism and nationalism,
58–9
influence on Prague Spring,
426
Western intellectuals, appeal for during First World War,
109–12
in liberal/illiberal countries,
44–5
of Mao Zedong,
257–8
as modern rather than backward,
29
Romantic,
463
route map to Communism,
40–41
Russian revolutionaries attraction to,
71–2
scientific approach to,
38–9
and Stalin,
137
May 30th movement, China,
248
Mayombe
(Pepetela),
395
McCarthyism,
230
Measure Taken, The
(Brecht),
120–21
media themes of attack by USSR,
527
Mexico,
568–9
Michnik, Adam,
519
Mikoian, Anastas,
384
Millerand, Alexandre,
55
Mills, Wright,
459
Miloševic, Slobodan,
551–2
Mi
osz, Czes
286–7
miners in South Wales,
128
Mini-manual of an Urban Guerrilla
(Marighella),
467
Mississippi Summer, United States,
454–5