Organization
Communist Party of China
Ruling party of the People's Republic of China.
- Also known as
- CPC, CCP
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founded by
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Mao Zedong
According to Communist Party of China
Primary record
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As the Party's 1981 resolution puts it: his service in founding and building up the Party.
involved in
- Campaign to suppress counter-revolutionaries lists it among the first three years' tasks in its 1981 history Primary record 1
- Cultural Revolution says it caused the most severe setback and the heaviest losses since 1949 According to Communist Party of China Primary record 1
- Great Leap Forward its Second Plenum of 1958 adopted the general line Primary record 1
- Great Leap Forward its 1981 history says the Leap and the communes began without careful investigation According to Communist Party of China Primary record 1
- Lhasa in March 1959 its 1981 history says Tibet was peacefully liberated in the first three years of the People's Republic According to Communist Party of China Primary record 1
- Lushan meeting of 1959 Political Bureau meeting at Lushan, July 1959 Primary record 1
- Tiananmen protests and crackdown of 1989 its People's Daily editorial of 26 April blamed a very small number of people and called the protests a planned conspiracy According to Communist Party of China Scholarship & press 2
adopted
Timeline 1 date
Proof 2 sources
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Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party since the Founding of the People's Republic of China, Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (text on the Marxists Internet Archive), 27 Jun 1981.
Primary record
He rendered indelible meritorious service in founding and building up our Party and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army
carried out agrarian reform in the new liberated areas, suppressed counter-revolutionaries, and unfolded the movements against the “three evils” of corruption; waste and bureaucracy
was responsible for the most severe setback and the heaviest losses suffered by the Party, the state and the people since the founding of the People’s Republic.
taking advantage of Comrade Mao Zedong’s errors, committed many crimes behind his back, bringing disaster to the country and the people.
Chief responsibility for the grave “Left” error of the “cultural revolution
does indeed lie with Comrade Mao Zedong.
In 1958, the Second Plenum of the Eighth National Congress of the Party adopted the general line for socialist construction.
After the general line was formulated, the Great Leap Forward and the movement for rural people’s communes were initiated without careful investigation and study and without prior experimentation.
peacefully liberated Tibet
From the end of 1958 to the early stage of the Lushan Meeting of the Political Bureau of the Party’s Central Committee in July 1959
Adopted by the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on June 27, 1981
Comrade Mao Zedong was a great Marxist and a great proletarian revolutionary, strategist and theorist.
It is true that he made gross mistakes during the “cultural revolution
His merits are primary and his errors secondary.
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Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History (Electronic Briefing Book No. 16, documents), National Security Archive, George Washington University, 1 Jun 1999.
Scholarship & press
After the memorial meeting, an extremely small number of people with ulterior purposes continued to take advantage of the young students’ feelings of grief for Comrade Hu Yaobang
This is a planned conspiracy and a disturbance. Its essence is to, once and for all, negate the leadership of the CPC [Chinese Communist Party] and the socialist system
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