Mao Zedong and Maoism—the ideology of peasant revolution guided by an all-knowing sage—inspired insurgent movements in Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Peru, the Philippines, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and ...

MAOISM is broadly defined as a variant of Marxism that places greater emphasis on the peasantry and, while “orthodox” Marxist-Leninists see this group as equal to the industrial working class, with ...

What was – what is – Maoism? At the end of the introductory chapter of this exceptional work, Julia Lovell quotes Christophe Bourseiller, announcing that “Maoism doesn’t exist. It never ...

The guerrilla insurgents who’ve been fighting the Nepalese government since 1996 are usually referred to as Maoists. How does Maoism differ from garden-variety communism? Maoism has a more rural ...

Why Maoism still resonates in China today. We found this nostalgia extends even to the Cultural Revolution. May 29, 2019. A portrait of Mao Zedong, China's paramount leader and chairman of the ...

Maoism at the Grassroots reexamines this period of transformation and upheaval from a new perspective, one that challenges the standard state-centered view. Bringing together scholars from China, ...

Jill Lepore's These Truths, Mary Fulbrook's Reckonings and Julia Lovell's Maoism are the three finalists of the 2019 Cundill History Prize. The prize, administered by McGill University, annually ...