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The history of communism encompasses a wide variety of ideologies and political movements sharing the core principles of common ownership of wealth, economic enterprise, and property. [1] [2] Most modern forms of communism are grounded at least nominally in Marxism, a theory and method conceived by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels during the 19th ...
Parties participating in the event. In 1960 an International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties was held in Moscow.It was preceded by a conference of 12 Communist and Workers Parties of Socialist countries held in Moscow November 1957 [1] and the Bucharest Conference of Representatives of Communist and Workers Parties in June 1960. [2]
1948–1960 Communist forces: Malayan Communist Party. Malayan National Liberation Army; Supported by: Soviet Union [36] People's Republic of China [37] [38] [39] Indonesia [38] [39] North Vietnam [40] [41] [42] Anti-communist forces: Commonwealth of Nations United Kingdom. Federation of Malaya Southern Rhodesia (until 1953) Rhodesia and ...
A communist era is a sustained period of national government by a single party following the philosophy of Marxism–Leninism. Many countries have experienced such a period of communist rule . Current communist states
The press in the communist period was an organ of the state, completely reliant on and subservient to the communist party. [104] Before the late 1980s, Eastern Bloc radio and television organizations were state-owned, while print media was usually owned by political organizations, mostly by the local communist party. [ 105 ]
Socialism was the word predominantly used by Marxists up until World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, at which time Vladimir Lenin made the conscious decision to replace the term socialism with communism, renaming the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party to the All-Russian Communist Party. [124] [120]
Khrushchev anxiously awaited the results of the 1960 United States presidential election, preferring Kennedy to Richard Nixon, whom he took as a hardline anti-communist cold warrior, and openly celebrated the former's victory on November 8. In truth however, Khrushchev's opinion of Kennedy was mixed.
The Congo Crisis in 1960 drew Cold War battle lines in Africa, as the Democratic Republic of the Congo became a Soviet ally, causing concern in the West. [3] However, by the early 1960s, the Cold War reached its most dangerous point with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, as the world stood on the brink of nuclear war.