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The Chinese Communist Party and the Collapse of Soviet Communism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

John W. Garver
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The collapse first of Communist rule of the USSR and then of the USSR itself was without question one of the pivotal events of the era. Since China's 20th-century history has been so deeply influenced by Soviet developments, it is important to examine the impact of these events on China. This article asks, first, whether the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), had a deliberate policy towards the decline of Soviet Communism, and if so, what was the nature of that policy? Did the CCP attempt to assist their comrades in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) as the latter battled for survival during 1990 and 1991?

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The China Quarterly , Volume 133 , March 1993 , pp. 1 - 26
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1993

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