A crucial motor of the Cold War, Maoism altered the course of the conflict on Vietnam and helped bring to power the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; it aided anti-colonial resistance movements in Africa; it inspired terrorism in Germany and Italy, and wars and insurgencies in Peru, India and Nepal. This is an ideology and hey has shaped the modern world, as well as modern China. Starting with the birth of Mao's revolution in northwest China in the 1930s and concluding with its violent afterlives in South Asia and resurgence in the People's Republic today, Julia Lovell re-evaluates Maoism as both a Chinese and an international force, linking its evolution in China with its impact around the world. The result is a radical and long-overdue revision of global history.
