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by Priestland, David

Kautsky, Karl, 53–5

  Kennan, G., 222, 223

  Kennedy, John F., 348, 385

  Khmer Rouge, 488–95

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 315, 316, 317

  anti-imperialism, 375–6

  attitude towards Stalin’s legacy, 327–8

  background, 326

  Cuban Missile Crisis, 349

  decline of early popularity, 346–50

  denunciation of Stalin, 328–30

  early career in the party, 327

  economic concerns, 405

  first impression of, 326

  as imperialist, 404–5

  inclusive and non-violent mobilization, 345–6

  intelligentsia’s disillusion with, 347–8

  kitchen debate with Nixon, 343

  leadership marked by crises, 348–50

  Mao’s response to, 351

  Radical, Romantic Marxism of, 342–3

  reaction to Not by Bread Alone (novel), 339–40

  reform programme, 328

  relations with Yugoslavia, 332–3

  relationship between workers and officials, 346

  retirement, 349

  Kideckel, David, 445

  Kim Il Sung, 267–9, 302–3

  Kirkpatrick, Jean, 522

  Kirov, Sergei, murder of, 176

  Kissinger, Henry, 473–4

  kitchen debate, 343

  Koba, as role model for Stalin, 136

  Kopelev, Lev, 151–2

  Korea

  Communism in, 242

  compared to USSR and China, 302–3

  see also North Korea

  Korean War, 298

  Kosovo, 552

  Kraus, Karl, 109–10

  Kravchenko, Viktor, 147–8, 150, 153, 166, 177, 293

  Krenz, Egon, 544

  Kriegel, Annie, 127–8

  Krille, Otto, 50–51

  Kristol, Irving, 520–23

  Krokodil, hoax in, 154–5

  Kronstadt rebellion, 99

  Kun, Béla, 108

  Kundera, Milan, 284–5, 412

  labour at the centre of life in Eastern Europe, 287

  Lampland, Martha, 445

  land reform

  China, 262–3, 298

  Ethiopia, 484–5

  Last Judgement of Kings, The (Maréchal), 7–8

  Latin America

  Communist parties 1920s and 1930s, 198–9

  Cuban attempts to export revolution, 390–92

  guerrilla Communism, 568

  left-wing politics in, 468–9

  student and urban rebellions 1960s, 467–8

  see also Cuba

  Latvia, 548

  Lavrov, Petr, 69–70

  Le père Duchesne (newspaper), 10

  leadership cults

  Mao Zedong, 367–8

  Stalin, 162–3

  Lefort, René, 483

  Lenin, Vladimir

  1905 revolution, 78–9

  bourgeois discipline of, 74

  on capitalism and imperialism, 79–80

  compared to Ho Chi Minh, 243

  compared to Stalin, 138–9

  contribution of, 101

  death, 101

  on democracy, 86

  on equality, 85

  family background, 73–4

  hatred of bourgeoisie, 75–6

  hybrid approach towards Asia, 238–9

  impact of brother’s execution, 74–5

  impact on of Chernyshevskii’s novel, 75

  move from Radical to Modernist Marxism, 62–3, 93–5

  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

  Litveiko, Anna, 84, 90

  Liu Shaoqi, 263, 297–8

  Long March, 255

  Low Intensity Conflict, 528–31

  Lu Xun, 239–40, 244

  Lukács, György, 110–11

  Luxemburg, Rosa, 58, 112–13, 118

  Lyon silk-workers uprising, 32–3

  Lysenko, Trofim, 281

  Machel, Samora, 472, 478

  Malaia Zemlia, cult of, 430

  Malaysia, 271–2

  Malenkov, Georgii, 324–6, 328

  Malraux, André, 197

  Man of Straw (Mann), 109

  managers

  as evading central control, 173–4

  relations with workers, 438–41, 442–3

  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

  unhappiness with inequalities, 352, 358

  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

  Marshall Plan, 223–5, 227

  Martin, Kingsley, 196

  Marx, Heinrich, 23, 24

  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

  father, 23, 24

  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

  in Africa, 394–5, 396–8

  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

  Kautskian, 53–5, 73

  in liberal/illiberal countries, 44–5

  of Mao Zedong, 257–8

  as modern rather than backward, 29

  modernist, 40, 42–3, 62–3, 72

  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

  Mengistu Haile Mariam, 483, 485–6, 547

  Mexico, 568–9

  Michnik, Adam, 519

  Middle East, 471–2, 475

  Mikoian, Anastas, 384

  Millerand, Alexandre, 55

  Mills, Wright, 459

  Miloševic, Slobodan, 551–2

  Miosz, Czesaw, 286–7

  miners in South Wales, 128

  Mini-manual of an Urban Guerrilla (Marighella), 467

  Mississippi Summer, United States, 454–5

  Mlynář, Zdeněk, 215–16, 342–3, 424, 425, 428–9

  modernist Marxism, xxiv, xxv, 41, 42–3, 62–3, 72, 137

  modernization, American, 385

  Mondlane, Eduardo, 397

  Mosinee, staged Communist occupation of, 227–8

  Mozambique, 473, 478–80, 530

  MPLA (Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola), 397–8

  Mujahedin, US support for, 530–31

  multi-party elections, 543–4

  music, rock, 448–50

  Nagy, Imre, 332

  nationalism

  Africa, 397–8

  Asia, 237

  in China, 247–8

  as corroding the USSR, 548

  Eastern Europe, 415, 548

  feelings of in USSR during Second World War, 206

  Marxist responses to, 58–9

  Palestinian, 471

  policy towards in 1930s USSR, 159–61

  and Romania, 406–8

  in Soviet bloc, 548

  tension with Communists, 377

  Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933, 189

  neo-conservatives, 520–22, 559, 570

  neo-liberalism, 521, 526

  Communist adaptations to, 561–6

  in Eastern Europe, 559–60

  failure in Russia, 560–61

  and failure of Communism, 557–8

  failure of Lehman Brothers, 570

  Third Way, 559

  Nepal, 567

  Neruda, Pablo, 198

  New Economic Policy, Russia, 99–100, 140, 141–3, 145, 146

  New Left thinkers, 458–9

  Nguyen Tat Thanh, 234–5

  see also Ho Chi Minh

  Nicaragua, 499–500, 529–30

  Nicholas II, Tsar, coronation, 63

  1960s

  strength and variety of communism, 454

  student rebellions of, 452–3, 456–7, 463–4, 467

  Nixon, Richard, 343, 450–51

  Nkrumah, Kwame, 394

  Non-Aligned Movement, founding of, 375

  North Korea, 267–9

  High Stalinist policies, 409

  military model in everyday life, 411

  retention of hierarchical order, 410–11

  retention of Marxist-Leninist ideology, 565

  self-reliance philosophy, 410

  Northern Expedition of Chiang Kaishek, 248

  Not by Bread Alone (Dudintsev), 339–41

  Notes from the Underground (Dostoyevsky), 68–9

  Novocherkassk strike, 346–7

  Nyerere, Julius, 393, 394

  Oath of the Horatii, The (David), 4–5

  October (Eisenstein), 132–4

  October Manifesto, 78

  oil-price increase 1973, impact of, 432, 475

  One-Dimensional Man (Marcuse), 457

  Orange Alternative, 542–3

  Orwell, George, 200–201

  Osterroth, Nikolaus, 47–8

  Ostrovskii, Nikolai, 164–5, 300

  Owen, Robert, 21–2

  PAIGC, 397, 398

  Palestine, nationalist movement, 471

  Papu, Edgar, 404

  Paris

  exposition 1937, 182–4

  imagined exposition after Second World War, 211

  Paris Commune of 1871, 37

  Party Card (Pyrev), 174–5

  Pasha Angelina, 163–4, 284

  paternalism in Rousseau , 5, 6

  paternalism of party-states, 435–6, 444–5

  paternalism under Stalin, 162–5

  paternalistic socialism, 430

  Patricide (Qazbegi), 136

  patriotism, Soviet, 159–61

  peasants

  Chinese, revolutionary role for, 252–3

  as difficult to mobilize in China, 263

  guerrilla movements, 472–3

  Russian: Bolsheviks as lesser evil for than Whites, 97; exploitation of, 151–5; hostility to Soviet regime, 171–2; Stalinist regime’s compromises with, 156

  ‘People or Monsters’ reportage piece, 503–4

  People’s Republic of China

  foundation of, 266–7

  see also China

  ‘People’s Will’, Russia, 70

  Pepetela, 395

  permanent revolution, theory of, 34

  personal relationships, time available for under Communism, 441–2

  Peru, 566–7

  Petersburg (Bely), 80–81

  Philippines, 271

  Pinochet, General Augusto, 475

  Pioneer Palace, 315–16

  Plekhanov, Georgii, 72

  Pol Pot, 489–95

  Poland

  1989 compared to previous revolutionary years, 546

  banks, investment by, 432–3

  Catholic Church in, 518–19

 

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