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Anti-revisionism enjoyed its moment of greatest size and influence with numerous " Marxist-Leninist " and " Maoist " parties, groups and publications springing up around the world in the period which began with the Sino-Soviet split of the early 1960s.

Its growth was greatly accelerated by international enthusiasm for the Cultural Revolution in China, but it began to decline in response to controversial Chinese foreign policy decisions in the last years of Mao's life, his death and the subsequent defeat of the Gang of Four.

While some anti-revisionists soldiered on, adapting to these changes, these later events spurred other elements to argue for a non-Trotskyist " left-wing " communism, independent of allegiance to foreign authorities or models.