When Khrushchev pursued an interpretation that differed from his predecessor,
Joseph Stalin, anti-revisionists within the international communist movement remained dedicated to Stalin's ideological legacy and criticized the
Soviet Union under Khrushchev and his successors as
state capitalist and
social imperialist. During the
Sino-Soviet split, the
Communist Party of China, led by
Mao Zedong; the
Party of Labour of Albania, led by
Enver Hoxha; and some other communist parties and organizations around the world denounced the Khrushchev line as
revisionist. Mao Zedong first denounced the Soviet Union as revisionist at a meeting in January 1962. A 'central anti-revisionist drafting group' was formally constituted, led by
Kang Sheng, which drafted anti-revisionist polemics, which were later personally reviewed by Mao before publication. China friendship associations turned into anti-revisionist organizations, and Western Europe anti-revisionist splinter groups began to emerge (such as the , the
Grippa group in Belgium, and the
Lenin Centre in Switzerland). In Beijing, the street where the Soviet embassy was located was symbolically renamed as 'Anti-Revisionism Street'. In the wake of the
1964 split in the Communist Party of India, the
Communist Party of India (Marxist) would reject Soviet positions as revisionist, but the party did not fully adopt a pro-Chinese line. During the
Deng Xiaoping administration in the late 1970s, anti-revisionist themes began to be downplayed in official Chinese discourse. The
Chinese Academy of Sciences stated that the 'Nine Articles' had been wrong in focusing on the revisionism of the Soviet Union, rather than the threats of
Soviet hegemonism and expansionism. == See also ==