SAH Commons | Ylber Marku | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/ylbermarku/activity/ Activity feed for Ylber Marku. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:07:34 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5ba161ff5b4959c42ef2eca4f084aa42 Ylber Marku's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1905771/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 12:21:20 -0500 0 c4a900473797b6bd68c68cd16c08ac97 Ylber Marku deposited China and Albania: the Cultural Revolution and Cold War Relations https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853724/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 08:59:15 -0400 During the central decades of the Cold War, China was Albania’s only ally. The aim of this article is to analyse how the Chinese Cultural Revolution affected Sino-Albanian relations. This article argues that the events in China threatened to undermine the Sino-Albanian alliance, because Albania did not endorse most of the Cultural Revolution’s pol…[Read more]

]]> 0 b85e0980f84021c56752231c2e9d091b Ylber Marku deposited Communist Relations in Crisis: The End of the Soviet-Albanian Relations, and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1960-61 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853722/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 08:55:35 -0400 When in 1960 the Sino-Soviet split created a schism within the international Communist movement, Albania supported China, becoming Beijing’s only European ally. The reforms of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, promoted in the aftermath of the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956, had undermined the Stalinist r…[Read more]

]]> 0 07fa3124ec79526c8dc852a0389492e7 Ylber Marku deposited Stories from the International Communist Movement: the Chinese front in Europe and the limits of the anti-revisionist struggle https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853721/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 08:51:31 -0400 This article analyses the political life of two important European communist activists who, in the aftermath of the Sino-Soviet split in the early 1960s, decided to support China and Albania against the Soviet Union: Kazimierz Mijal, a Polish communist who, in the mid-1960s, decided to exile himself to Albania, from where he promoted the ‘China w…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb14a79d4528a4c2cf23e996bb73927e Ylber Marku deposited Albania, China, and the Sino-Vietnamese Conflict of 1979 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853720/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 08:48:16 -0400 Research Note and translation of two documents regarding Albania’s standing towards the Sino-Vietnamese border

]]> 0 e3d351249ec56e4141debfacb9d68974 Ylber Marku deposited Shifting Alliances: Albania in the Early Cold War https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853718/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 08:14:35 -0400 Although Albania emerged from the Second World War as an appendage of Yugoslavia, the Albanian Communist regime soon turned against Yugoslavia and forged an alliance with the Soviet Union. However, after the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev launched a campaign of de-Stalinization, Albania’s alliance with the USSR steadily eroded and collapsed a…[Read more]

]]> 0 b1149e880967c3292ef454b3fd849b3a Ylber Marku deposited Preparing for an alliance: China’s socialist model and Albania’s economic path in the Early Cold War https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853717/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 08:11:26 -0400 Based mainly on Albanian primary sources, this article explores the implications of Albania’s economic cooperation with China during the late 1950s and early 1960s. It shows that in Albania’s shifting alliances, the role of economic calculations has been as important as that of political convenience. The article argues that China’s emphasis on in…[Read more]

]]> 0 ecbf1c80fdc6780c4958e2d2c3c3234a Ylber Marku's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853715/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 07:49:22 -0400 0 718d40245812f0f6422e1309dc047a2a Ylber Marku changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853716/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 04:04:53 -0400 0