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Abimael Guzmán was a Peruvian Marxist-Leninist-Maoist militant and philosophy professor who founded the Communist Party of Peru, commonly known as Shining Path or Sendero Luminoso. The organization began its armed campaign against the Peruvian state in 1980 and became responsible for extensive viole...

Enver Hoxha (1908–1985) ruled Albania as head of its communist Party of Labour from 1944 until his death in 1985, serving first as prime minister and later as first secretary. He broke with the Soviet Union in 1961 and with China in 1978, espousing a rigid anti-revisionist Marxism–Leninism since lab...

The Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) was a sociopolitical campaign launched by Mao Zedong to purge capitalist and traditional elements, resulting in widespread persecution, destruction of cultural heritage, and millions of deaths.

Ieng Sary was a Cambodian communist politician and senior leader of the Khmer Rouge. During Democratic Kampuchea, the state established after the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh in 1975, he served as deputy prime minister and foreign minister. The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, a...

Pol Pot, born Saloth Sar, was a Cambodian communist revolutionary and the leading figure of the Khmer Rouge. He headed the government of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979, when the regime forcibly relocated urban residents, imposed collective agricultural labor, and used prisons, executions, an...