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Authors: David Priestland
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leadership instability,
332
Lenin on failure of soviet republic,
121–2
multi-party elections,
543
power of managers,
439
radical Marxism, failure of,
115–17
reduced controls at Austrian border,
544
research on party officials,
433–5
revolution,
334–6
soviet government of March 1919,
107–8
wages in compared to US,
438–9
workforce dissatisfaction,
308–9
imperialism
anti-movements, Communism as vehicle for,
236–7
anti-imperialist aid from USSR,
375–6
Bandung conference as anti-,
374–5
Lenin on,
79–80
Marxist responses to,
58–9
of the US,
379–80
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
(Lenin),
79–80
India
difficulties embedding Marxism,
243
Naxalite guerrillas,
568
tension between left nationalists and Communists,
377
industrial revolution, second,
42–3
industrialization,
150–51
inefficiency after Russian revolution,
98
inequalities
anger at,
443–4
in China,
563
in East European industry,
305–7
informants, use of in GDR,
512–13
intellectuals,
168–9
and Communism,
109–12
controlled liberalization in China,
352–3
disillusion with Khrushchev,
347–8
as visitors to USSR in 1930s,
196–8
International Lenin School for Western Communists,
125–6
Iran, Stalin’s policy towards,
233
Iraq, tension between left nationalists and Communists,
377
Italy
challenges in 1950s,
338–9
Communism 1919–20,
117
Communist Party in,
293–4
conflict between left and right,
496–7
Eurocommunism,
497
festivals,
338
response to de-Stalinization,
337
support for Christian Democrat government,
498
terrorism in,
466
Togliatti as Popular Front supporter,
208–9
worker unrest,
466
Ivan the Terrible
Parts I and II (Eisenstein),
180–81
conflict with
sans-culottes,
10
Marx on failure of,
17
outlook of,
8
January Storm, China,
366
Japan
Chinese campaigns against,
255–6
difficulties embedding Marxism,
243
invasion of China 1937,
261–2
Jaruzelski, Wojciech,
525
Jews, Soviet attitudes towards,
282–3
Jiangxi Soviet Republic, China,
253
Johnson, Lyndon,
399–400
Julie or the New Héloise
(Rousseau),
6
Kautskian Marxism,
73
Kautsky, Karl,
53–5
Khmer Rouge,
488–95
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
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
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
labour at the centre of life in Eastern Europe,
287
Lampland, Martha,
445
land reform
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
