Published: 2022-12-071

Before the Beijing Spring. Conflict in the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s from the perspective of the Foreign Department of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party

Przemysław Benken
Echa Przeszłości
Section: ARTICLES
https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.8395

Abstract

The article examines internal conflicts in the Chinese Communist Party in the period between Deng Xiaoping’s rise to power and early 1989 based on an analysis of archival documents of the Foreign Department of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party. The author discusses successive stages in Deng’s rise to political prominence. Deng gained influence by eliminating Communist Party members who had been active during the Cultural Revolution and adopted a pragmatic stance in attempts to resolve mounting conflict between conservative and liberal fractions in the party. These issues are discussed in the context of China’s extensive economic reforms and limited political changes which led to social unrest in the late 1980s and culminated in the Beijing Spring movement of 1989.

Keywords:

Foreign Department of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party, People’s Republic of China, Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist Party

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Benken, P. (2022). Before the Beijing Spring. Conflict in the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s from the perspective of the Foreign Department of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party. Echa Przeszłości, (XXIII/2), 171–196. https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.8395

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