Latin America and the Soviet-Chinese Conflict (the 1960s – mid-1970s)

The disagreements and rupture between the Chinese Communist Party and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) were the most important event in the history of the International Communist Movement in the 60s and 70s of the 20th century, which had a huge impact on the fate of communist parties around the world. Latin America has become a place of fierce rivalry between Moscow and Beijing for influence on the political left flank. Moscow's tough opposition to any attempts by the Chinese Communist Party to increase its influence in the continent's communist parties without resorting to splitting them caused a backlash and a change in the policy of criticism within the parties to a policy of secession of independent “anti-revisionist” communist parties. Maoist communist parties emerged in all countries of the continent, opposing their policies to the pro-Moscow left parties. Maoism was able to penetrate not only the old communist movement but also the ranks of socialists, leftist nationalists and even Christian democrats. It often became the ideological and political basis for a break with the “traditional” left parties, a kind of transit bridge towards the “new left”. The ideas of Maoism were partly accepted by the trend of the “new left”, which gained special weight among the intelligentsia and students of the continent. This article is devoted to the emergence and development of the Maoist Communist Parties, the reaction of Moscow and Havana in the political circumstances of Latin America in the 60s of the 20th century.

Keywords

International Communist Movement, Maoism, “popular war”, antirevisionism, Latin America

Acknowledgment

The article was written with the support of the Russian Popular Front, project 19-18-00305 “Comintern in Latin America: historical traditions and political processes”.

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29.01.2021

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05.08.2021

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GOST	Schelchkov A. Latin America and the Soviet-Chinese Conflict (the 1960s – mid-1970s) // Novaia i noveishaia istoriia – 2021. – Issue 4 C. 149-165 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://nni.jes.su/S013038640016189-5-1 (circulation date: 24.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013038640016189-5
MLA	Schelchkov, Andrey "Latin America and the Soviet-Chinese Conflict (the 1960s – mid-1970s)." Novaia i noveishaia istoriia 4 (2021):149-165. DOI: 10.31857/S013038640016189-5
APA	Schelchkov A. (2021). Latin America and the Soviet-Chinese Conflict (the 1960s – mid-1970s). Novaia i noveishaia istoriia (4), pp.149-165 DOI: 10.31857/S013038640016189-5

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