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Many Communist parties around the world either collapsed, or became independent non-Communist entities. However, China, North Korea, Laos, Vietnam and Cuba maintained Communist Party states. After 1980, China adopted a market-oriented economy that welcomed large-scale trade and friendly relations with the United States.
Throughout the 20th century communism spread to various parts of the world, largely as a result of Soviet influence, often through revolutionary movements and post-World War II geopolitical shifts. The Cold War period saw a global ideological struggle between the communist bloc, led by the Soviet Union, and the capitalist West, led by the ...
The aftermath of World War II saw the rise of communist influence in East and Southeast Asia. The People's Republic of China was founded after the Chinese Communist Party emerged victorious from the Chinese Civil War in 1949, and the First Indochina War occurred between the Viet Minh government and France after the Japanese retreat.
The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Marxist–Leninist regime in Poland after the end of World War II.These years, while featuring general industrialization, urbanization and many improvements in the standard of living, were marred by early Stalinist repressions, social unrest, political strife and severe economic difficulties.
During the years 1957–1965, housing policy underwent several institutional changes with industrialisation and urbanisation had not been matched by an increase in housing after World War II. [228]
Post-communism is the period of political and economic transformation or transition in post-Soviet states and other formerly communist states located in Central-Eastern Europe and parts of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, in which new governments aimed to create free market-oriented capitalist economies.
Eventually, the Communist insurgents were defeated and the CCP was forced to withdraw northwards in the Long March. After learning of the disastrous results of Li's offensives, the Comintern sent Zhou Enlai and Qu Qiubai back from Moscow to moderate Li. [146] When this failed, the Comintern summoned Li to Moscow in October 1930. [147]
At the House Un-American Activities Committee, former CPUSA members and NKVD spies, Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers, testified that Soviet spies and communist sympathizers had penetrated the U.S. government before, during and after World War II. Other U.S. citizen spies confessed to their acts of espionage in situations where the ...