Across the “curtain” and within the “bloc” – political opinion of Maoist parties and organizations in Central and East Europe from the perspective of international politics
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2024
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Tartu Ülikool
Abstract
This thesis explores the political opinion of Maoist parties and organizations in
Central and East Europe. As an important topic in the field of Cold War studies,
considerable amounts of research on the global Maoism and Maoist movement
are concentrated on the developed world of the West and the vast developing
world of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Yet for the Central and East Europe at
the frontier of the Cold War confrontation between the United States and the
Soviet Union, Maoist movement of this region has been little studied
comparatively. The recent years witnessed the gradual growth of related studies
about the Maoist movement in Central and East Europe, but most of the limited
literature mainly tried to outline the major historical timeline of the Maoist
movement or to give overview about the lives of specific leaders of the CEE Maoist
group but lacks deeper analysis of their organizational documents concerning
their political programme and opinion as organized group. The thesis tries to
focus on Maoist political parties and organizations emerged within the Eastern
Bloc and make a detailed analysis of their crucial document defining the core
proposition of their organizations with special attention to the substance of their
theoretical principle and claiming proposal in the replenishment of factual
outline from existing literature. By examining the global and regional geopolitical
environments, combined with a closer look from international and domestic level
at the selected key documents of the CEE Maoist organizations with common
theme defining their political identity and proposition, it is an attempt trying to
contribute a little bit in pushing from “Was it (Maoism) there?” towards deeper
and closer inspection at “Why and What were they (Maoist) struggling (for)
there?”