The schism caused by the criticism of Khrushchev to Stalin's crimes fed gradual revisionism of Marxism-Leninism in the communist world. It also prompted an angry reaction from Mao Zedong.
Mao's actions against what he considered a heresy against Marxism-Leninism had a significance far greater than the allegations against Stalin in hastening the end of the communist world.
In 1958 Mao mobilized the entire population of China in a titanic effort known as "The Great Leap Forward." With him in five years intended to make China an industrial giant. The results were catastrophic. Among other things caused famines that killed millions of peasants.
revisionism Aware that took power in China in 1966, Mao launched another campaign purification: the Cultural Revolution. It was a purge of the entire society, the communist party and the army that lasted until 1976. The first member of the government was publicly tortured and killed was the minister of coal, an official Mao despised because of his criticism of "The great leap forward" .
The eldest son of Deng Xiaoping was arrested, tortured and became a paraplegic after he attempted suicide or was thrown from a third floor while under arrest. In that decade, three million people died violent deaths. The result of the so-called "Cultural Revolution" was a real economic meltdown, political and social.
Mao's power was completely debilitated. This and his death opened the door to a radical change. The Great Transformation of China's economy to capitalism.
If the first blow to communism Nikita Khrushchev had "no knowledge of the significance of his claim," the second and final as the Chinese would deliberately in 1979 under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping.
The onset of reforms and successes in China preceded by six years of Mikhail Gorbachev's speech in Leningrad in 1985, which proposed the initiation of reform communism in the USSR.
We could summarize that the Stalinist repression was causing a backlash in the ranks of the Soviet Communist Party with important long-term implications. Stalin had economic achievements and the effort of World War II catapulted him undeservedly to hero status. Despite this repression was sentenced.
Mao on the contrary again and again failed in its major projects overwhelming human cost. Repression was of Mao that led him to political failure, and he opened the door to Chinese revisionism a decisive influence on events in the USSR before his disappearance. Continue
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