^#smrgSAHAF The Khrushchevites - Memoirs - 1980

Enver Hoxha was the leader of Communist Albania from 1944 to 1985. Originally, Albania was part of the Soviet-led socialist bloc, but it broke with the Soviet Union after Khrushchev had restored Soviet relations with Tito's Yugoslavia, Albania's perennial nemesis on the Balkans. Instead, Albania became an ally of Mao's China. After the death of Mao, his successor Hua Guofeng became pro-American, which was unacceptable to Hoxha. Worse, China established friendly relations with Tito! Albania therefore broke with China as well, and it was during this period of near-isolation that Enver Hoxha wrote "Imperialism and revolution". Indeed, in some ways Hoxha abandoned the ideas contained in the book only a few years later.